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.

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

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

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

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

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Real friends stab you in the front.

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

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.

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

There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.

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

Friends are nothing but a known enemy

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.