The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

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

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

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

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

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

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

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

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

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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

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

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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