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"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything."

"Oh, you're the best friends anybody ever had. And it's funny, but I feel as if I'd known you all the time, but I couldn't have, could I?"

"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12."

"True friends don't judge each other, they judge other people together."

"Friendship my definition is built on two things. Respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble."

"Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people."

"A good friend can tell you what the matter with you is in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling."

"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit."

"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes."

"Let's swear each with our pinky. We'll be the best of friends. Until we are old and wrinkly!"

"Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected."

"F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Fight for you. Respect you. Include you. Encourage you. Need you. Deserve you. Stand by you."