Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity
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 you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
I get by with a little help from my friends.
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
