What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

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

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

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

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

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.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you

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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.