If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

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

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

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

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

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

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

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

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