No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Children make your life important.

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

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

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

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

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

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.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

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

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.