"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one."

—C.S. Lewis
"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."

—Helen Keller
"Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing." 

―Elie Wiesel