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

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

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

I get by with a little help from my friends.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

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

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

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.

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

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

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity