We often choose a friend as we do a mistress -- for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of inertia.

God has already lined up the right people for you, people that will inspire you, challenge you and motivate you. If you'll let go of the wrong people, then the right people will show up.

God sends people into our lives just when we need them, to say the right word, His word, just when we need it.

Friendship is an opportunity to act on God's behalf in the lives of the people that we're close to, reminding each other who God is.

We keep asking for answers; God keeps sending us people.

Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is calling God a liar because He's the One Who says we also need human friends.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

I should have people around bugging me and getting under my skin because without people I could not grow - I could not grow in God, and I could not grow as a human.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.