The best friend you can ever have is yourself, but allowing yourself to become the best friend you will ever have is the most difficult, as well as the most important, task you will ever undertake. It will be hard to do, but it is worth trying. Most people unconsciously wish to avoid for a lifetime--meeting, let alone becoming best friends with--their real selves. It is simply unconsciously too daunting to try, not to mention so unimaginably hard to accomplish. The Zeitgeist of the world is no friend to you if you consciously make an attempt, for the world has been turned inside-side out for millennia, fighting wars on top of more wars, on top of even more wars, killing millions and millions and millions of those who otherwise most probably would have become your friends, polluting increasingly the air we breathe and the water we drink all along the way.  But you, as is everyone else, a microcosm of the world. Your troubles and worries are also the world's. If ever you wish to make friends with yourself, if ever the world finally wishes to realize Peace on Earth as you make peace within yourself, both of you will need the most compassionate, insightful, intuitive help possible. At this moment, the world is going in the absolutely diametrically wrong direction, which all of you already know too well. But you, one of almost 8 billion human beings presently on Earth, can, if you have the courage, begin to turn yourself right-side in. You and the world both need to become your own best friend.

Tod Howard Hawks