And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend.

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.

Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selective you become.

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

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.