If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.
A man should never neglect his family for business.
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
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.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
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.