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

"Meaningful work and meaningful relationships are the keys to a good life."

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

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

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

"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."