“The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.”

“Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”

“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”

“Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.”

“When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.”

“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”

“To desire friendship is a great fault. Friendship should be a gratuitous joy like those afforded by art or life. We must refuse it so that we may be worthy to receive it; it is of the order of grace.”

“Sell not the friendship of the Lord for the friendship of the world and its possessions.”

“Today I tell you, and I declare it to the whole world, that we accept to live with you in permanent peace based on justice. We do not want to encircle you or be encircled ourselves by destructive missiles ready for launching, nor by the shells of grudges and hatreds.”