The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

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

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

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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

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.

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

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