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

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.

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

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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