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.

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

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

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

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

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

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

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

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.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

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

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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