No matter who weaves in and out of your life, regardless of the quality of those deep friendships and familyships, I'm the only common denominator at this point who's been with me the whole time. And there's this sense of trying to make sense of that ultimate solitude. It's not a negative or even a positive. It's just a fact.
Measure your life in love.
It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
Better be alone than in bad company.
Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
You can measure success by the number of friends who have remained loyal to you, and you to them.
It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.
High standards generally -- about workmanship and creation of objects, about what is owed in friendship, about the quality of art and much else -- far from being snobbish, are required to maintain decency in life.
