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

"Truth is the essential foundation for producing good outcomes."

"One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts."

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

"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more."

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