Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures. – Seneca

My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. – George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons, 2011

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else’s. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com