Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Real friends stab you in the front.
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.
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
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 one before whom I may think aloud.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.