Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

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.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

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

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

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

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

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

Friendship is love without his wings!

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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

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

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.