Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

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.

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

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

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

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

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

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Children make your life important.

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

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

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