“A real friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out”

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walk out.”

“A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.”

“At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.”

“In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.”

“You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.”