The book of Proverbs warns us over and over again about negative associations. Constant exposure to wrong attitudes and wrong values will eventually take its toll in our lives. It is always easier to pull someone down than it is to lift him up. What kind of friends should you have? The kind who bring out the best in you, who lift you up, who encourage you, who make you a better person.

In our final moments we all realize that relationships are what life is all about. Wisdom is learning that truth sooner rather than later. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to figure out that nothing matters more.

Some of the best people with whom you can have a relationship are the people who challenge your thinking.

Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long after they have departed.

But remember, continuing a wrong relationship only increases the pain when it finally does end.

Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

We wish companionship and renewal of spirit, enrichment of thought and the full adventure of the mind; and we desire fair company, and a larger world in which to find them.

He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

If I were to refuse to obey orders I should betray my living friends. And the living have more rights over us than the dead. You told me that yourself. Therefore choose life, it is written in the Scriptures. I have espoused the cause of the living, and that is no betrayal.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.