If you want a friend, look first to see if you are one.

Friends accept you the way you are.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life.

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies—it is the first law of nature.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.