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

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

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

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

The best kind of friend is the kind you sit with, never say a word and walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.

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