John Leonard - It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

William Penn - A true friend freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.

E.E. Cummings - It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

John Webster - Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

Owen D. Young - It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

John Steinbeck - Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

John Sino - It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping.

Faith Salie - Did you know you're supposed to soap and scrub for as long as it takes to sing 'Happy Birthday' twice?

Robert Browning - Grow old with me, the best is yet to be.

William Shakespeare - A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Alice Walker - No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

John McCain - You raise taxes during an economic crisis time, as we did in - back in the time of Herbert Hoover, you send the country into a depression.

Thomas Leonard - Integrity reveals beauty.

Leonard Cohen - I never had the sense that there was an end: that there was a retirement or that there was a jackpot.

Desiderius Erasmus - Time takes away the grief of men.