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.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back
Well, it's 1 a.m. Better go home and spend some quality time with the kids.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
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.
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.
Children make your life important.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.
Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
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.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
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.
Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
