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

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

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

Children make your life important.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

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.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

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

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

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

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

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Real friends stab you in the front.

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

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

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

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

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.