Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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.

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

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.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

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

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

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