"Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies."

"Keep your friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent"

“For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.” 

“It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.” 

“As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.”

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”

You are better off having a friend than to be all alone. If you fall, your friend can help you up. But if you fall without having a friend nearby, you’re really in trouble. 

If you want to be great at something, there’s a choice you have to make. What I mean by that is, there are inherent sacrifices that come along with that. Family time, hanging out with friends, being a great friend, being a great son, nephew, whatever the case may be.

“The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.” 

“friend is the one who showes the way and walks a piece of road with us” 

I started writing a journal, and I was learning so much along the way. How to deal with your family, how to deal with your friends.

One of the advantages of being a national journalist of some recognition is that you come across high-profile people, and many become your friends.

“It's easy to make friends, but hard to get rid of them.”

The deeper the solitude the less the sense of loneliness, and the nearer our friends

The wastebasket is a writer’s best friend.

To have learned how to accept favors from friends without losing your self-respect or appearing ungrateful.

Boldness be my friend.

Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.

True friends are like diamonds, precious and rare. False friends are like autumn leaves, found everywhere.

“You can gain or buy friends by letting them control you, but you will have to keep them the same way you got them. After allowing them to control you to keep their friendship for a while, you will eventually get tired of having no freedom. Being lonely is actually better than being manipulated and controlled. When you enter into a new relationship, be careful how you get started. What you allow in the beginning will come to be expected throughout your association with that person. The behavior you tolerate at the start of a relationship should be behavior you can be happy with permanently. Let people know by your actions that even though you would like their approval, you can live without it. Respect others, and let them know you expect them to respect you, too.” 

In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all of your preconceived fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is so useful? Because it is empty.

Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

From quiet homes and first beginning Out to the undiscovered ends There's nothing worth the wear of winning But laughter and the love of friends.

For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did.