"The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks."

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

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

"If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived."

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

"What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it."