“Does absolute reliance carry with it a complete exchange of confidences? I believe that true friendship cannot exist otherwise.”

“The substantial difference between me and a friendship, I believe in true friendship.”

“I can't be sure God does not exist… On a scale of seven, where one means I know he exists, and seven I know he doesn't, I call myself a six… That doesn't mean I'm absolutely confident, that I absolutely know, because I don't.”

“We believe that societies and economies only advance as far as individuals are free to carry them forward. And just as freedom cannot exist when people are imprisoned for their political views, true opportunity cannot exist when people are imprisoned by sickness, or hunger, or darkness.”

“True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does”

“He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.”

“The fact is that unless you experience something for yourself it does not exist for you. If God exists you must have the experience of God in the moment; otherwise you are absent and God cannot exist for you.”

“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”

“Reason does not exist for the sake of life, but life for the sake of reason. An existence which does not of itself satisfy reason and solve all her doubts, cannot be the true one.”

“There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.”