"Understanding reality is the most important thing because reality doesn't care what you want to be true."

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

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

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

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

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