"What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it."

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

"The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning."

"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."

"Hope is the power that gives a person the confidence to step out and try."