Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.
Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.
True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Real friends stab you in the front.
Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you
The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
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.