A friend is as it were a second self.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

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.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

Friends accept you the way you are.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the “oughtness” that forever confronts him.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.