Do not walk behind me
I may not lead.
Do not walk in front of me
I may not follow.
Just walk beside me
and be my friend.

Anita Neufeld

Someone to laugh with
Never too busy to care
The gift of Friendship

Andrew Staples

"A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely." Pam Brown

"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." Muhammad Ali

"The principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart." Francis Bacon

"The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorus, even plainest when all around is dark." Grace Crowell

"A faithful friend is the medicine of life." Ecclesiasticus 6:16

"The one reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Of all the things which provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship." Epicurus

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and likes you anyway". Christi Mary Warner

"Wear a smile and have friends: wear a frown and have wrinkles". George Eliot

"Friends force you to examine yourself and encourage you to grow". Cher

"True friendship is like sound health: the value of it is seldom known until it be lost". Charles Caleb Cotton

"Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only this meeting that a new world is born". Aniais Nin

"'Stay' is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary". Louisa May Alcott