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

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.

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

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

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

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

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

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

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

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

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

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

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

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

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

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