"God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing."

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

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

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

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

"When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now."