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

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

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.

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

Friendship is love without his wings!

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

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.

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

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

Man's best support is a very dear friend.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

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

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.