There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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.

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

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.

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

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

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

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

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

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

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

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

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

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 family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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

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