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.

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

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

Children make your life important.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

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

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

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

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.