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

"It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed."

"A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet."

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

"Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different."

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