" A brother is a first friend and a second father. "

— Unknown

" The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we are afraid. "

— Muriel Barbery

" A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow. "

— Unknown

" I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. "

— Pablo Neruda

" The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. "

— Unknown

" Brothers aren't simply close; brothers are knit together. "

— Robert Rivers