" If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them. "

— Michael Bassey Johnson

" People pay for what they do, and, still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. "

— James Baldwin

" Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them, but you know they're always there. "

— Unknown

" No one in this world can love a girl more than her father. "

— Michael Ratnadeepak

" When my father didn’t have my hand, he had my back. "

— Linda Poindexter

" It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. "

— Marlene Dietrich