"Hold a true friend with both your hands."
~ Nigerian proverb.
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."
~ Abraham Lincoln.
"Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt.
We have learned the simple truth, as Emerson said that the only way to have a friend is to be one. We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion or mistrust or with fear.
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
"To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship."
~ Sallust (1st century B.C.).
Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.
~ Susan P. Schultz.
"One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."
~ Sophocles (409 BC).