The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
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.
Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
Between friends there is no need of justice.
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.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.