We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

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

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.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

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

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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.

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.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.