A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
Bernard Meltzer

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Aristotle

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Czech. Proverb

It isn't the load that weighs us down--It's the way we carry it.

Speak kind words and you will hear kind echoes.

We carefully count others' offenses against us, but we rarely consider what others may suffer because of us. ~Thomas Kempi

The important thing in this world is not where we stand, but in what direction we move.  ~Goethe

You can't help a person to uphill without getting closer to the top yourself.

If anyone speak badly of you, live so none will believe it!

In taking revenge, a man is equal to his enemy; in passing over it, he is superior.