Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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

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

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

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

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.

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

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

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.

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

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

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

Children make your life important.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

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

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