The light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.--James Russell Lowell

Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.--Aristotle 

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.--Ed Cunningham