
“Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
Don't Fall Off the Mountain http://books.google.com/books?id=f6yc35pUhEwC&q=%22The+more+I+traveled+the+more+I+realized+that+fear+makes+strangers+of+people+who+should+be+friends%22&pg=PA160#v=onepage (1970)
Variant: The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
“Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“Fear is a friend who's misunderstood”
Source: Continuum: Music by John Mayer
“When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.”
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
Foreign Policy Congress in Milan, June 1938. Quoted in "The decline of the intellectual" - Page 189 - by Thomas Molnar - 1994.
“Friends, we're hardly strangers at meeting danger.”
XII. 209 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)