Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity

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

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

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

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

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.

Between friends there is no need of justice.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I get by with a little help from my friends.

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