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.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Children make your life important.
Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.