“If you need to find out who is your friend among many, stimulate a resolutive conflict.”
“If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends.”
“Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.”
“You find out who your real friends are when you're involved in a scandal.”
“Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it.”
“...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way.”