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

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

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 is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

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

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

Between friends there is no need of justice.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

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

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

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.

True friends ... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

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

What was more, they had taken the first step toward genuine friendship. They had exchanged vulnerabilities.

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

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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.

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

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next-door neighbour.