“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.”

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

“If you think friendship is easy, then you have never had a true friend.”

“There are certain people who make the world a better place just by being in it. You are one of those people. I love you my friend.”

“If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren’t your friends.”

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

“That is what compassion does. It challenges our assumptions, our sense of self-limitation, worthlessness, of not having a place in the world, our feelings of loneliness and estrangement. These are narrow, constrictive states of mind. As we develop compassion, our hearts open.”

Anyone can buy a good house, but good neighbors are priceless.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

“Dream, dream, dream. Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in action.”

“You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.”

“When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.”