The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
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.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
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.
Children make your life important.
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
