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

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

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.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

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

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

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

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

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

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

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.