If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. — Nelson Mandela

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Friendship, if somebody holds out his hand toward you, you've got to reach and take it... There are too many people alone, and if you're lucky enough for somebody to want you as a friend, it's an obligation.

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Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

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I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expect everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate good. . . . If we will take the good we find, . . . we shall have heaping measures. . . . — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

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Why fit in when you were born to stand out? — Dr. Seuss

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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

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Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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