"God doesn't want something from us. He simply wants us."

"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."

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."

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

"A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse."

"Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity."