The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves when we connect to others. Without community we don't know who we are... When we live outside of healthy community, we not only lose others. We lose ourselves...Who we understand ourselves to be is dramatically affected for better or worse by those we hold closest to us.

Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.

It is a good thing to be rich and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved by many friends.

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

It is a good thing to be rich, and it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be loved of many friends.

It is a good thing to be rich and strong, but it is a better thing to be loved.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

'Friends' will always remain friends.

Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.

For sure, when you are being beaten by your team-mate, it hurts.

I tried not to smile as I gathered the marbles. After counting them out by color and placing them into the holes, I looked at Sapphire and shrugged. 'There aren't enough.' Miz Obee's face tensed, but Sapphire looked at her friend kindly, patted the table, and said, 'Just set up the board as best you can. We'll play with whatever we got.' I thought that was one of the wisest things I'd ever heard anyone say.

There is nothing on this earth to be prized more than true friendship. —Thomas Aquinas