The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I dont mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship. – Marilyn Hacker
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com