The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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.
One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
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.
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.
The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
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.
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
