Friendship Quotes to Share with Your Favorite People

"Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud," Angelou said on Oprah's Master Class.

"How about 'diamonds are a girl's best friends?' Nope. It should be switched around and pointed out, instead, that your best friends are diamonds," the author and academic wrote in her book It's Not That I'm Bitter . . .: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World.

"If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?" the Duchess of Sussex said during an interview on Citytv.

"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," the former boxer said, according to the Muhammad Ali Center.

"Women's friendships are like a renewable source of power," the Grace and Frankie actress said during a 2015 TED talk.

"The truth is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you're never going through anything alone....you can choose your family," the Hustlers star wrote in her 2014 memoir, True Love.

In the December 2009 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine, Winfrey wrote, "The best gift anyone can give, I believe, is the gift of sharing themselves."

“Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses... swapped back and forth and over again,” the former First Lady wrote in Becoming.

In Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne wrote, "A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside."

In Northanger Abbey, the British novelist wrote, "There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."

"One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about," the actress wrote in Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

In his book The Four Loves, C.S. Lewis wrote, "Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another, 'What! You too?'"

“It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends,” the novelist wrote in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

"Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies," the fantasy author wrote in Vampire Academy.

In his anthology of 20 poems, The Passionate Pilgrim, the English playwright said, "Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find."

"A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face," the poet and civil rights activist wrote in Letter to My Daughter.

In his book The Godfather, the crime novelist wrote, "Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family."

The five-time winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for African American authors wrote, "Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard," in Slam!

"Anybody can look at you. It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see," the New York Times bestselling author wrote in Turtles All the Way Down.

"There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort," the English novelist wrote in her 1847 book Jane Eyre.