Be someone’s security blanket when theirs is in the wash.

Dogs are loyal friends, and if they could talk, your secrets would still be safe. (If my cat could talk, I’d have to let the dog eat her.)

I wish everyone had someone who never popped their balloons.

Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.

Friends are those crazy people who keep coming back, in spite of being exposed to the real you.

True friends esteem you of greater worth than you feel deserving. False friends demand you prove that worth.

Friendship is not about ships—no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is.

Life is hard and unfair. It is cruel and heartless, painful, trying, disappointing, unapologetic, and frequently downright awful. But that's not important. What's important is that through it all you learn how much you need your Heavenly Father and how much your friends need you.

If your best friend truly is the person who knows you completely and loves you anyway, wouldn't that be your mother?