There is no friendship in trade.

There is no friendship in trade.

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, read more

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. -George Eliot.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of read more

I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you read more

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.