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

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

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

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

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

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

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

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

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

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

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

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

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

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

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.