Treasure the friendship you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.

Gradually I felt flooded by a powerful sense of communion with the people passing by. Each man was my brother and each woman my sister. We were so very much alike. So fragile, impermanent, and easily destroyed. We trustingly went to and fro beneath the sky, which had nothing good in store for us.

The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

What is the sign of a friend? Is it that he tells you his secret sorrows? No, it is that he tells you his secret joys. Many people will confide their secret sorrows to you, but the final mark of intimacy is when they share their secret joys with you.

True friendship is rare on earth. It means identifying with someone in thought, heart, and spirit. The whole experience of life is designed to enable us to enter into this closest relationship with Jesus Christ.

No one on a cohesive team can say, Well, I did my job. Our failure isn't my fault.

The path to significance is bigger than the individual.

This side of heaven good marriages are good marriages because the people in those marriages are committed to doing daily the things that keep their marriages good. Things go wrong when couples think they have reached the point when they can retire from their marital work and chill out, lie back, and slide.

We must all come to understand and accept the truth that our walks with God are community projects.