“Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.”

“It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.”

“What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?”

“Do you know what it's like to like someone so much you can't stand it and know that they'll never feel the same way? Probably not. People like you don't have to suffer through those kind of things.”

“You know what I want in a woman, Paul?"
"What's that?"
"A friend. A true friend; someone who knows me and loves me anyway. You know, like when I'm through putting my best foot forward, she's still there, still the same.”

“It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one's own sensitivity with the suffering of one's fellow human beings.”

“Egoism is the identification of the power that knows with the instruments of knowing.”

“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view.”

“If someone sticks by your side through your worst times, they’re the ones who deserve to be with you through your best times.”

“We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness.”