So long as we love we serve;
So long as we are loved by others,
I would almost say that we are indispensable;
And no one is useless while they have a friend.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the
candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

- Buddha

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Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.

- Albert Camus

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It’s the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.

- Marlene Dietrich

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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escap
those who dream only by night.

- Edgar Allan Poe

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The mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

-Thomas Carlyle

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A faithful friend is the medicine of life.

-The Apocrypha, 6:16

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Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

-Oprah Winfrey

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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in
each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

- Richard Bach