1. “Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”
– Oscar Wilde

2. “A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down."

Arnold H. Glasgow

3. “One’s friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.”
– George Santayana

4. “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

5. “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
– Alice Walker

6. “Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature

to sympathize with a friend’s success.”
– Oscar Wilde

7. “There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west –
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.”
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

8. “Whenever you’re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
– William James