The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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

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.

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

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

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

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.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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.

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

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

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

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