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.

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

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.

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

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

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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

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

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.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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.