A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
Frank Crane.
“A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.”
“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough.”
“We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.”
“Responsibility is the thing people dread the most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.”
“What is a friend? I will tell you...it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself. Frank Crane”
“Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.”
“When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for t...”
“You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?'I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore...”
“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying youre friends is easy. Being friends is not.”
“My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.”
“This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.”
“I have a motto: Work to become, not to acquire.”
“The pretence leads up to the real thing. When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is put on a friendly manner and behave as if...”
“I don't think he likes girls", I said. "Or boys. Look at the horror on his face. He doesn't look like a people person.”