The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

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

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

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.

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

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

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

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

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

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

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

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