Maya Angelou on friendship

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

I believe most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Albert Camus1913–1960

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Martin Luther King, Jr., The Trumpet of Conscience, Steeler Lecture, November 1967.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one!’

C. S. Lewis1898–1963