TODAY IS the Friendship Day. A definition of friendship at wikipedia.org goes as follows: Friendship is the cooperative and supportive relationship between people, or animals. In this sense, the term connotes a relationship which involves mutual knowledge, esteem, affection, and respect along with a degree of rendering service to friends in times of need or crisis.

• A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr Jerome Cummings
• A good friend is my nearest relation. -- Thomas Fuller
• A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire. --La Rochefoucauld
• Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.-- Albert Camus
• Friendship is Love without his wings! -- Lord Byron.
• Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it. -- Cicero
• Friendship needs no words... -- Dag Hammarskjold.
• However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship. -- La Rochefoucauld
• In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. -- Kahil Gibran
• Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. -- Kahil Gibran.
• Let your best be for your friend... -- Kahil Gibran
• My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private. -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
• One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. -- Hasidic Saying
• Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.-- Anonymous
• The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.-- Abraham Lincoln
• There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends. -- Hillaire Belloc
• True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost -- Charles Caleb Colton
• Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. -- Elbert Hubbard