I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.

Must being in love always mean being in pain?

Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.

Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments. We have allowed our love stories to end way too early. We seem to know far too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.

There is valour in being able to identify a forgiving, hopeful perspective on one's life, in knowing how to be a friend to oneself, because one has a responsibility to others to endure.

He will need to learn that love is a skill rather than an enthusiasm.

We must live with our enemies as if they might one day become our friends, and live with our friends as if they might some time or other become our enemies.

Two people who are surprised by a lion in a jungle clearing will — unless one of them is eaten — be effectively bonded by what they have seen.

We have allowed our love stories to end too early. We seem to know too much about how love starts, and recklessly little about how it might continue.

Man seeks, in his manhood, not orders, not laws and peremptory dogmas, but counsel from one who is earnest in goodness and faithful in friendship, making man free.