Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

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

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.

A friend to all is a friend to none.

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

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

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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

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

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.