Quotes on Valued Friends

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

About the last thing I ever wanted in life was a knighthood, and even today some forty years after the event, I find it difficult to come to terms with a life where old and valued friends insist on calling me 'Sir' instead of Don, simply because they think it is protocol. But I have consciously shouldered these burdens because I felt that I was the medium through which cricket could achieve a higher status and gain maximum support from the people, not only in Australia but throughout the world.

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

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.