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

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

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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.

I'm so happy. Cause today I found my friends.They're in my head.

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.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

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.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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

There is a magic in the memory of a schoolboy friendship. It softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.