"A good companion shortens the longest road." --Turkish proverb
"Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love." --Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
"Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances." --William Powell
"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive." --An is Nin