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

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

"Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future."

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."

"If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize."

"It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."