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

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

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

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

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.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

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

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.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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

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