Quotes

Excerpts From Show Open

If you get nothing else from this show, remember this: “Always Believe, Never Lose Faith and Keep Moving Forward.”
We are all in this together and only together can we overcome the hold that autism has on our children.
I hold these core beliefs…. Our children can get better. Our children can fully recover.

Belief breeds Inspiration
Inspiration leads to Hope
Hope drives Motivation
Motivation creates a desire to seek Knowledge
When Knowledge is applied, Change occurs

Excerpts From Show Open

I strongly believe that it all begins with the parents. Parents are and must be the driving force of our communities. The risks are too great and the issues too sacred to leave in the hands of those with outside interests.
Recovery is not a rumor, it is not a fabrication and it is not fantasy. The reality is thousands of children have improved dramatically and recovered.

Hearts & Mind - Information For Change

Action

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. - Albert Einstein
To excel in football you must act quickly - Anonymous
There is no beauty but the beauty of action. - Proverb
I am only one, But still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. - Edward Everett Hale
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. - Benjamin Disraeli
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. - Edmund Burke
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. - Shira Tehrani
Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. - Lucy Larcom

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings. - Helen Keller
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. - Anonymous
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. - Danny Kaye
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. - Ella Williams
Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. - Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them. - Hugh Prather
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Lao Tzu
Getting up the courage to take that first step.- Anonymous
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, it might have been'. - John Greenleaf Whittier
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. - Kahlil Gibran
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. - Irish Proverb
Action is the antidote to despair. - Joan Baez
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. - Elie Wiesel
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen. - Anonymous
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man. - Chinese Proverb
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can. - Ashleigh Brilliant
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. - Anonymous
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel. - C.S. Lewis
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
Actions speak louder than words. - English Proverb
The beginning is the half of every action. - Greek Proverb
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you are called in one body; and be yet thankful. - Colossians 3:15
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory. - Ingrid Bergman

Adversity

Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with. - Leighton
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. - Anonymous
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock. - Anonymous
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back. - Anonymous
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right? - I Peter
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed - Anonymous
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. - George S. Patton
Adventure is worthwhile. - Amelia Earhart
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. - Joshua J. Marine
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. - William Ellery Channing
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down. - Brian Weir
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest. - Greek Proverb
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water. - Sister Busche
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. - James 1:24, RSV
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. - Phyllis Battome
Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic. - Jean Sibelius

Beware of help from questionable sources - Anonymous
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain
At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found. - Hudson Newsletter
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open. - Anonymous
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set. - Anonymous
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries. - Anonymous
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us. - Alexander Graham Bell
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past- Anonymous
What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement. – Nash
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. -Bernice Johnson Reagon
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm. - Anonymous
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?" - Sydney J. Harris
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. - Plutarch

Anger

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. - Cherie Carter-Scott
Anyone, any age, can get angry. Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China - Anonymous
When anger rises, think of the consequences. - Confucius
The wind of anger blows out the lamp of intelligence. - Anonymous
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life. - Joan Lunden
When you feel "dog tired" at night, it may be because you growled all day. - Anonymous
The best remedy for anger is delay. - Brigham Young
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom a good one. - Benjamin Franklin
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. - Elizabeth I
People all over the world get angry, that's one of many things we have in common - Anonymous
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. - Chinese Proverb
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people. - Mario Puzo
If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. - Epictetus
Speak when you are angry - and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. - Laurence J. Peter
Anger is always more harmful than the insult that caused it. - Chinese Proverb
Anger is a bad adviser. – French Proverb
Eventually, we hope, we gain the wisdom to deal with anger. - Anonymous
Anybody can become angry, that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not within everybody's power, that is not easy. - Aristotle
He who flings mud, loses a lot of ground. - Anonymous
A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control. - Proverbs 29:11
If what we are doing with our anger is not achieving the desired result, it would seem logical to try something different. - Harriet Lerner
Anger helps strengthen out a problem like a fan helps straighten out a pile of papers. - Susan Mancotte

Attitude

Attitude determines altitude. - Anonymous
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. - William Shakespeare
Attitude to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think, say or do. It is more important than appearance, gift, or skill. It will make or break a company...a church...a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes. - Charles Swindoll
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart. - Johann Wolfgang Goethe, from "Faust"
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them. - Anonymous
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. - Anonymous
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself. - Anonymous
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude. - Anonymous
Be who you are in every situation. - Michael Johnson
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it. - Anonymous
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care. - Anonymous
Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny. - Carl Schurz
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. - Henry Ford
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary. - Emmanuel
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations. - Anonymous
Security is a kind of death. - Tennessee Williams, Esquire, September, 1971
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole. - Anonymous
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much; Wisdom is humble that she knows no more. - Cowper
Smile: if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag. - Anonymous
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks. – Anonymous

Beauty

What worth has beauty if it is not seen? - Italian Proverb
Beauty is not so much what you see as what you dream. - Walloon Proverb
The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy. - Reverend Sean Parker Dennison (Special thanks to Richard Vine for the correction)
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves. - Salma Hayek
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. - Anne Frank
A heart in love with beauty never grows old. - Turkish Proverb
Beauty is the gift of God. - Aristotle
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty. - Joseph Addison
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. - D.H. Lawrence
The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head - Proverbs 20:29

Change

Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. - Carol Burnett
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. - Harrison Ford
Nothing endures but change. - Heraclitus
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. - Nelson Mandela
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. - Author unknown
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different. - Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change. - Brian Tracy
If you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it. - Mary Engelbreit
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. - Anonymous
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity; not a threat. - Prince Phillip of England
Change yourself and change your fortunes. - Portuguese Proverb
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mahatma Gandhi
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it - Mary Norton Gordon

To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable - Helen Keller
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed - Storm Jameson
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only - Plautus

Children and Family

As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother? - Christy Borgeld
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. - Virginia Satir
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. - Brigham Young
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. - Kim Rohn
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play. - Christy Borgeld
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. - Richard Bach
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear. - Terence
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child. - Mary MacCracken
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. - Abigail Van Buren
Your children will become what you are; so be what you want them to be. - David Bly
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. - Harold Hulbert
Fathers are like a lighthouse… when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light. - Christy Borgeld
To understand your parents' love you must raise children yourself. - Chinese Proverb
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow. - Christy Borgeld
Children are the reward of life. - Congolese Proverb
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children. - Hebrew Proverb
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core. - Christy Borgeld
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. - Thomas Szasz
It takes a whole village to raise a child. - African Proverb
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction - Anne Sullivan
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home. - Bill Cosby
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him ‘father.’ - Lydia Maria Child

Courage and Risk-Taking

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. - Keshavan Nair
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers. - Anonymous
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. - Maya Angelou
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on. - Anonymous
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. - Theodore H. White
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. - Soren Kierkegaard
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can. - Henry Drummond
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. - Anonymous
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in. - Wayne Gretzky
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you. - Tony Dorsett
To win without risk is to triumph without glory. - Pierre Corneille
He who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. - Anonymous
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it - Martin Luther King, Jr.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them. - Molly McDonald
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man of courage is also full of faith - Cicero

Depression

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. - Martin Luther King
Though you may be under a dark tree, always look for the light shining through the branches - Anonymous
Remember sadness is always temporary. This, too, shall pass. - Chuck T. Falcon
Trials give you strength; sorrows give understanding and wisdom. - Chuck T. Falcon
No matter how depressed you are, don't shut everyone out– Anonymous
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. - Elie Weisel
Hope is grief’s best music. - Anonymous
Fall seven times; stand up eight. - Japanese proverb
Concern should drive us into action, not depression. - Karen Horney

Discipline

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. - Jim Rohn
No man is free who is not master of himself. - Epictetus
We must not let our passions destroy our dreams. - Anonymous
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit. - Anonymous
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city. - Proverbs
There is no luck except where there is discipline. - Irish Proverb
If you would live your life with ease; do what you ought, not what you please. - Anonymous
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant. - Anonymous
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion. - Michael Johnson
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business – or in anything else, for that matter. - Lee Iacocca
He who lives without discipline dies without honor. - Icelandic Proverb
Let him that would move the world first move himself. - Socrates
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves. - Anonymous
The basis of self-discipline: Don’t allow the edges to blur. - Michael Johnson

Effort and Persistence

A big shot is a little shot that kept shooting. - Anonymous
Keep trudging or you'll never reach the top - Anonymous
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely. - Anonymous
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy. - Bill Blackman
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up? - Marian Wright Edelman
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. - John Quincy Adams
The only job where you start at the top; is digging a hole. - Anonymous
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind. - Bruce Lee
Most things in life require effort even if, years later, they seem easy - Anonymous
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
If the going is real easy, beware; you may be headed down hill. - Anonymous
There's always free cheese in the mousetraps, but the mice there are not happy. - Anonymous
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. They, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. - Thomas S. Monson
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom. - Anonymous
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world. - Jane Addams
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. - Anonymous
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength. - St. Francis De Sales
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. - Seneca
Never, never, never give up. - Winston Churchill
Remember, when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there. - Anonymous
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out. - Anonymous
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. - George Allen
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work. - Anonymous
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them. - Anonymous
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished. - Anonymous
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either. - Anonymous
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. - Theodore Roosevelt
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. - Confucius
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul. - Anonymous
The successful man is the average man, focused. - Anonymous
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. - John Wooden
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed. - Bambara Proverb
Anything that we have to learn, we learn by the actual doing of it. We become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones. - Aristotle, Ethics
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face. - Anonymous
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win. - Levell Edwards
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent. - Anonymous
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. - John F. Kennedy
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. - Annie Dillard

Faith

I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, "Move from here to there" and it will move. Nothing will be impossible to you. - Matthew 17:20
At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe. - Bruce Springsteen
Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity. Unshakable faith is faith that has been shaken. - Unknown
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. - Confucius
For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight; his can’t be wrong whose life is in the right: In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity. - Alexander Pope
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed. - Voltaire

Fear

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience. - Unknown
Don't fear, just live right. - Neal A. Maxwell
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. - Nelson Mandela
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors. - William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
A life lived in fear is half lived. - Anonymous
Fear is the parent of cruelty. - J.A. Froude

Friends

The only way to have a friend is to be one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends. - Afghan Proverb
A small house will hold a hundred friends. - African Proverb
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle
Friendship is not born of words alone. - Armenian Proverb
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are. - Assyrian Proverb
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends. - Czech Proverb
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends. - Gabonese Proverb
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends. - Ethel Watts Mumford
So long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend. - Robert Louis Stevenson
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred—that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. - Anonymous
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. - Walter Winchell
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. - Buddha
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy. - Russian Proverb
The time to make friends is before you need them. - Traditional Proverb
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief. - Egyptian Proverb
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. - Fr. Jerome Cummings
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest. - Michael Johnson