"Understanding reality is the most important thing because reality doesn't care what you want to be true."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

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

"Your mind doesn't know the difference between reality and fantasy. Your mindacts on what you feed it. Feed it good thoughts."

"Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?"

"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."