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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

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

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

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

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.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

Real friends stab you in the front.

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.