| 10. Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. Shirley MacLaine |
| 9. Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. Anais Nin |
| 8. Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over. Octavia Butler |
| 7. Share your smile with the world. It’s a symbol of friendship and peace. Christie Brinkley |
| 6. I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Katherine Mansfield |
| 5. A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely. Pam Brown |
| 4. My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. Anne Lamott |
| 3. She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. Toni Morrison |
| 2. The best time to make friends is before you need them. Ethel Barrymore |
| 1. If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. Charlotte Bronte |
| +1. It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it. Zora Neale Hurston |
| +2. Friendship with one’s self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt |
WOW—I needed to read this—-are you at the cape—from a long lost voice—Pat Bubb