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

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

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

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

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.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

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.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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

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

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