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

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

Real friends stab you in the front.

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

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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

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

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

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

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

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.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

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.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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