The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

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

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

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

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

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

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

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

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.