Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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

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

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.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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.

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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

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

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

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

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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.

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

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

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

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

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