A close friend is someone you trust deeply and share personal life with. You have a strong bond, confide in them, and rely on mutual support. You spend time together and stay in touch often.
He was a close friend of Zakir Husain, the third President of India. It was a coincidence and a tribute to their friendship that both occupied the highest position of the land, died in harness of heart failure and collapsed in the same bathroom of the Rashtrapathi Bhavan. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
As a student in England he had befriended Jawaharlal Nehru whose progressive ideas had influenced him, and who became his close friend and mentor. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
Experience taught me that it is wise to be patient and forbearing with opponents and to use the divine cure of repeling with what is best (then verily he, between whom and you there was enmity, (will become) as though he was a close friend.) Quran 41:34. Salman al-Ouda
With the passing of Alan Shepard, our nation has lost an outstanding patriot, one of its finest pilots -and I have lost a very close friend. Alan Shepard
Some of the best advice I got from a close friend is marriage is always looked at from the world as 50/50 as to working together to make that 100 percent. Brian Littrell
A close friend can become a close enemy. Ethiopian Proverb