What is friendship?

“Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . ."” 

“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” 

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” 

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” 

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” 

“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” 

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh?" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's hand. "I just wanted to be sure of you.” 

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.”

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”