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

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

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

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

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

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

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

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

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

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

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

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

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

There is no friend as loyal as a book.