14 Making Friends The best thing I’ve ever read about friendship is Proverbs 18:24: A man who has friends must himself be friendly. The second best thing is this quote from Dale Carnegie: You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Sam Rayburn, democratic leader from Texas, served for more than forty-eight years in the U.S. House of Representatives (1913–61), including seventeen years