Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

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

I get by with a little help from my friends.

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

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

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

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

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

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

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

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

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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

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.

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.