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.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

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.

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

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

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.