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

"The fact that our heart yearns for something Earth can't supply is proof that Heaven must be our home."

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

"Things never happen the same way twice."

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

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