“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”

“Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.”

“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”

“Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.”

“If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.”

“Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.”

“A friendship that like love is warm;
A love like friendship, steady.”

“And it occurred to me that friendship was a lot more dependable, not to mention long-lasting, than love.”

“If we judge love by the majority of its results, it resembles hatred more than friendship.”

“No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.”