"She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression."

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

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

"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward."

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

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