Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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.

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

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

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

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

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

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

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

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

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

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.