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

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

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

"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."

"You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down."