A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.

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

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

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.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

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

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

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.