We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
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.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...
Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
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.
