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

"God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us."

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

"Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose."

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

"If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both."