"Friends are nice." It's a bland statement - friends are wonderful, and the best thing that can happen to a person. That's his belief. Everyone should be friends, because then everyone would have a large network of human closeness and everyone would be happy.

But it is also something that he doesn't think he can have yet himself, not yet. He has to get stronger first. Better. You can only have friends if you can offer something, if you can keep them. "Do you have friends here?"