Money is power and a friend in power is a friend lost.

Your deepest secrets cannot be smelled out by someone else; except you tell him. If you disclose it to a trusted friend and he divulges it, should you be inflamed? Who divulged it first? Even you could not keep it secret. Why be angry that your friend ‘copied and pasted’ you? He can’t carry what you couldn’t carry, that makes the two of you.

Every disappointment is preceded by an appointment. If we do not appoint a person as a reliable friend, neither will we be disappointed when he’s not on point at the point of our need.

Show me your friends and I’ll tell who you are’, is a profound maxim. Even if one argues to the contrary, that one tolerates certain characters as friends tells a story.

A good friend may not ‘disappear’ your problems, but he will certainly not disappear when problems appear.