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

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

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

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

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

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft...

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together.

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.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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.

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

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

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

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.