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.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

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

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

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

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

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

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

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

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

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

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

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.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.