You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

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.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

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

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

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

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.