“While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
Elie Wiesel
“A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.”
Charles Kingsley
“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”
Sydney Smith
“I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.”
Richard Bach
“Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.”
Ernest Gaines
“The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.”
Lee Iacocca