Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

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.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

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

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

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

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

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

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.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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

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

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.