friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

sometimes what we want isn’t what we need.

What is a Friend? I’ll tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. Your soul can go naked with him. He seems to ask you to put on nothing, only to be what you really are.

When you are with him, you do not have to be on your guard. You can say what you think, so long as it is genuinely you.

He understands those contradictions in your nature that cause others to misjudge you. With him you breathe freely—you can avow your little vanities and envies and absurdities, and in opening them up to him they are dissolved on the white ocean of his loyalty.

He understands.—You can weep with him, laugh with him, pray with him—through and underneath it all he sees, knows and loves you.

he can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t. this is an indisputable law.

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

20 years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did.

Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.