If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too

All of one’s contemporaries and aging friends are living in a delicate balance, and one feels that one’s own consciousness is no longer as brightly lit as it once was. But then, twilight with its more subdued colors has its charms as well.

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

I have great faith in fools – self-confidence my friends will call it.