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

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

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

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

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

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

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

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

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy