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.

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

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

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

The majority of people permit relatives, friends, and the public at large to so influence them that they cannot live their own lives, because they fear criticism.

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

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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.

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 one who brings out the best in me.

No good friends. No bad friends. Only people you want, need to be with; people who build their houses in your heart.

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.

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

A man should never neglect his family for business.

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

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

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back