"Life with God is not immunity from difficulties, but peace in difficulties."

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

"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning."

"God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them."

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

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