Friendship is the hardest word 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.
     --Muhammad Ali--

     I'm more free with Carol (Burnett) than with any other
     friend and that's because I know that whatever I say or do
     won't be misunderstood.  We have a friendship that deepens
     and grows each time we see each other.
     --Julie Andrews--

     I think if it's at all possible, your best friend and
     you owe it to each other to make some space just to be alone
     together again.  That way, you can talk about what you were,
     and that feels good.  You can also talk about what you are--
     that's trickier, but if you're lucky, that feels good too.
     --Elizabeth Berg--

     Being a good friend, and having a good friend, can 
     enrich your days and bring you lifelong satisfaction.  But
     friendships don't just happen.  They have to be created and
     nurtured.  Like any other skill, building friendship has to
     be practiced.
     --Sue Browder--

     Friendship is usually treated by the majority of 
     mankind as a tough and everlasting thing which will survive
     all manner of bad treatment.  But this is an exceedingly
     foolish error; it may die in the hour of a single unwise
     word....
     --Marie Louise de la Ram'ee (Ouida)

     When friends ask, there is no tomorrow.
     --Proverb--

     It is the friends you can call at 4 A.M. that matter.
     --Marlene Dietrich--

     A true friend is the best possession.
     --Benjamin Franklin--

     Friend who suffereth alone doth his friend offend.
     --Jean de Rotrow--

     True friendship comes when silence between two people
     is comfortable.
     --Dave Tyson Gentry

     When I was younger, I had more male friends than
     female friends.  Now I've come to realize how rewarding 
     women friends can be.  There can e real love between girl-
     friends.  That's something I learned from Nancy.  She's 
     always been there for me, and I'll always be there for her.
     --Donna Mills--

     Part of what friends experience is something that 
     people who aren't friends can't know.  It's a code.  It's 
     another language.
     --Judd Nelson--

     Friendship with oneself is all-important because 
     without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the 
     world.
     --Eleanor Roosevelt--

     I found real love in girlfriends...I've always found
     girls I've loved and made me laugh.  It's just nice--a 
     really good friendship.
     --Tina Turner--

     In the end we are all separate; our stories, no matter
     how similar, come to a fork and diverge.  We are drawn to 
     each other because of our similarities, but it is our 
     differences we must learn to respect.
     --Robert Israeloff--

    I want someone to laugh with me; someone to be grave
     with me; someone to please me and help my discrimination
     with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to 
     admire my acuteness and penetration.
     --Robert Burns--

     Do not keep the alabaser boxes of your love and 
     tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead.  Fill
     their lives with sweetness.  Speak approving cheering words
     while their ears can hear and while their hearts can be 
     thrilled by them.
     --Henry Ward Beecher--

     The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of
     a limb.
     --German Proverb--