"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."

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

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

"A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet."

"We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship."