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

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

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

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

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.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

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

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

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.

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.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

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