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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

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

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

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

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

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

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.

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

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.