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

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

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

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

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

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

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

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

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

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

I'm so happy. Cause today I found my friends.They're in my head.

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

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.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

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

If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.

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.

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