Sisters make the best friends in the world.

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

Compliments win friends, honesty loses them.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them.

If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.