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.
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.
Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Friends are nothing but a known enemy
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.
A friend is, as it were, a second self.
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
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.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
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.
Friendship is love without his wings!
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
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.
