Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

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

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

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

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

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.