"Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself."

"We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship."

"A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse."

"For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense."

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."

"What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it."