If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

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

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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

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

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.

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

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.