I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.
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.
I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.
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.
