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

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

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

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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

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

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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.

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.