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

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

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.

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

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

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

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back

A friend to all is a friend to none.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.