The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

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

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

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

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.

Children make your life important.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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.

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

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 should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

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

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.