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.

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

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

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

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.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

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

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

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

Children make your life important.

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

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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

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

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Real friends stab you in the front.

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