In order to have friends, you must first be one.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.

A friend is a hand that is always holding yours, no matter how close or far apart you may be. A friend is someone who is always there and will always, always care. A friend is a feeling of forever in the heart.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.

It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good.

A good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity.

Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.

Associate with people of vision. Be around those who inspire you and motivate you to reach your dreams.

I don't write letters anymore.