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

"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."

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

"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."

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