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

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

The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

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

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

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

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.

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

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

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

Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.

Anybody amuses me for once. A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

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.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.