A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walk out.

• Walter Winchell

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

• Bernard Meltzer

Best friend is someone who knows all about you and loves you anyway.

• Elbert Hubbard

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

• Anais Nin

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

• John Leonard

A friend is a gift one give oneself.

• Robert Louis Stevenson