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

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

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

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.

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.

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

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

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

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

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

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.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.