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

Children make your life important.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

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

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.

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

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

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

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

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

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

I'm so happy. Cause today I found my friends.They're in my head.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity