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

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.

Children make your life important.

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

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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

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.

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

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

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

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

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

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

Loyalty is what we seek in friendship.

We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.