Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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

Children make your life important.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

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.

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

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

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

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

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

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

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

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

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

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

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.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

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.

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