“What keeps [friends] together? Common history, some shared conquests, a delight in ideas and people and living. But they will also be distinguished by their ability to listen to you. They will not ...”

“Friends with whom you seriously fall out are death. Sometimes it will be completely your fault that this happens, and the shame and sadness of the parting will stay close for a long time.”

“If you hang to pain, hurt, embarrassment, guilt and such emotions you will find that they will dominate your life. They wont allow you to move on unless you make a conscious effort to deal with the...”

“We deny more than we confess. We hide more than we reveal. We assume because it makes us feel exposed if we have to ask. It's easier to say "I feel nothing" than to admit "I feel something." It tak...”

“Nothing that you confess... can make me love you any less.”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect fo...”

“Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.”

“Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.”

“I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.”

“Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.”

“If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.”