Wonderful Friends Quotes by Henri Nouwen, Laurence J. Peter, George Eliot, Leo Buscaglia, Albert Camus, Helen Keller and many others.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.
You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
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.
My life has been happy because I have had wonderful friends and plenty of interesting work to do.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
I’m not part of the Hollywood scene. I don’t run around with 30 women. I have a very calm household. I’m surrounded by my grandkids and wonderful friends, and I consider myself very lucky.
One of the things I’ve learnt is not to depend on there being a woman in your life to make it work. I love my work, I love my children, I’ve got wonderful friends, you know, I have a nice life.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Wes Craven is a wonderful friend, and we had a really good time together.
If you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
I loved my time on All My Children. That show was a family to me. I am so sad that daytime is slowly fading away. I owe so much to daytime. I learned so much about my craft and I made so many wonderful friends there and I am so sad that it is all going away.
Hold a true friend with both your hands.
I have a lot of really wonderful friends who are of very different sexes and genders.
We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
You Too? I thought I was the only one.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere else.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo.
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.
A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.
Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
Friends share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.
Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
I live in L.A. and I do have wonderful friends; I moved there when I was 19 so I developed a close knit group of friends, none of whom are actors, none of which are Australian, but I couldn’t do it long term.
A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had called me a silly little boy. And this wonderful friend had talked to me of the saints and shown me that even when I had outdone myself in absurdity I was not alone.
I wouldn’t trade those 10 years for anything. The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends.
I want to be tolerant of other people’s beliefs. I have wonderful friends who are religious, and I don’t want to say that they’re dimwits. They should certainly be able to pursue what works for them. I’m just saying that it doesn’t work for me and I don’t want to pretend that it does.
I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.
How very wonderful friends the moon, the sea and the night are!
Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.