Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

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

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

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.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Real friends stab you in the front.

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.

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

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

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

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