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

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

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

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

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

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

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

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

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

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

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

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

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

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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