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

There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

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.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

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

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

Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.