A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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

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

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

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

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

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

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

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

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.