The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

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

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

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

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

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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

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.

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.

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

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

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.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.