The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.
Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit in the porches and sing them on mild evenings.
The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.
Who ran to help me when I fell And would some pretty story tell Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.
All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand.
One can find traces of every life in each life.
Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society.
We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.
Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing.
Remember that you are all people and that all people are you.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies ... and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.
To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of getting out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.
Half the secret of getting along with people is consideration of their values; the other half is tolerance in one's own views.
A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably.