The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

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.

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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

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

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

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

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

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

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

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

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

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

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

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