"Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God."

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

"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning."

"Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."

"For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense."

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