The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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.

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends.

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

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

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.

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

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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

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.

It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

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

The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away

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

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.

If you go out looking for friends, you're going to find they are very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.