Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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

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

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

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

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

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

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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

A friend to all is a friend to none.

Children make your life important.

Friendship is love without his wings!

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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

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