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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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

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

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

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