“A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.”

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.”

Lester Bangs (1948–1982) American music critic and journalist

“When you willingly give up your own happiness for someone else, that is the sign of true love.”

Yasir Qadhi (1975) Pakistani-American preacher and imam

“I consider myself to be a true friend of the Israeli people. But I define friendship as someone who takes care of a friend, who just doesn't use or exploit a friend. And, you know, there's that old adage: 'Friends don't let friends drive drunk.”

Scott Ritter (1961) American weapons inspector and writer

“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.”

E. B. White book Charlotte's Web

“You know what I want in a woman, Paul?"
"What's that?"
"A friend. A true friend; someone who knows me and loves me anyway. You know, like when I'm through putting my best foot forward, she's still there, still the same.”

Donald Miller (1971) American writer

“If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

“A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

“True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.”

Кларенс Дарроу (1857–1938)

“Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer