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.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

Real friends stab you in the front.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

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.

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.

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

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.