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

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

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.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

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.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

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.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.