What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything. – Warren G. Harding
Id come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945. – Eli Wallach
Thus, the poets word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world. – Salvatore Quasimodo