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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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

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.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.