"Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties."

"If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived."

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

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

"If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it."

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