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

"God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them."

"A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you."

"Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come."

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

"Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything."