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.

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

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

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.

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

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

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

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.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

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

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.