Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Real friends stab you in the front.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Children make your life important.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.