“Friends are born, not made.”

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

“Chance made us sisters. Hearts made us friends.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

“Common danger made common friends”

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer

“My friends have made the story of my life.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

“Having a friend made everything else suck less.”

Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer

“So you’ve made a friend. How sad for them.”

Alyson Nöel book Shadowland

“Damn, Atlantean, what did you do? (Julian)
I apparently made a new friend. (Acheron)
I made a friend like that once. The bastard almost gutted me. (Julian)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“God knows I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon [Ausweg]. And actually not a year passed before it became an official credo, and it still is.”

Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961) Austrian physicist