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

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

"Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God."

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

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

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