A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another.
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It''s not something you learn in school. But if you haven''t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven''t learned anything