Friendship has grandeurs unknown to love. It gets stronger from difficulties when constraints kill love. It withstands times that separate and break up couples. It has highs unknown to love.
-Mariama Ba

A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
-La Rochefoucauld

You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can lose one in an hour.
-Chinese proverb

Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.
-Robert Quillen

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
-Ann Landers

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
-Winston Churchill

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
-William Shakespeare

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.
-Fred Hoyle

The most wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed.
-Sebastien R.N. Chamfort