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

"Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having."

"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."

"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."

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."