Friendship improves happiness and abates misery by doubling our joy and dividing our grief.

In adverse hours the friendship of the good shines most; each prosperous day commands its friends.

Helez the Paltite, Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,

Faithful is also a reminder of how important companionship is to the Christian walk, but not more important than the desire for eternal life that motivated Faithful to keep fleeing for his life, no matter how strong the desire for friendship. Chapter

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.

I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things.

This is the most profound spiritual truth I know: that even when we're most sure that love can't conquer all, it seems to anyway. It goes down into the rat hole with us, in the guise of our friends, and there it swells and comforts. It gives us second winds, third winds, hundredth winds.