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

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

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

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

"You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future"

"Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends."