I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Friends are nothing but a known enemy
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.
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.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
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.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...
