"The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend." 
~  Henry David Thoreau
"How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins."  
~  Henry David Thoreau
"A friend is what the heart needs all the time."  
~  Henry Van Dyke 
"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends."  
~ Dwight David Eisenhower
 
