I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...
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.
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
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.
The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity
