Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

Real friends stab you in the front.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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