Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

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

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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.

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

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.