It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
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.
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.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Friendship is love without his wings!
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.
I get by with a little help from my friends.
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
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.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
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.
