Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. Charles Péguy
Do not befriend an evil man and no evil will overtake you. Genesis Rabbah
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. Aristotle
Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer. Jean de La Fontaine
Above all do not forget your duty to love yourself. Søren Kierkegaard
Why is love intensified by absence? Audrey Niffenegger
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Rumi
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. Oscar Wilde
Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A scholar who loves comfort is not worthy of the name. Confucius
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from. Cormac McCarthy
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. Jack Kerouac