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.

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

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

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

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

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

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

Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.

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

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

Children make your life important.

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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.