Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.
Dalai Lama

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
Barack Obama

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
Mark Twain

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
Abraham Lincoln

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

We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
Mohandas Gandhi

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
Benjamin Franklin

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.
Bill Cosby

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
Confucius

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder.
John F. Kennedy

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.
Steven Wright

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller