“Are you a slave? Then you cannot be a friend. Are you a tyrant? Then you cannot have friends.”
“if you cannot keep your own secret, you cannot expect a friend to keep it for you”
“You cannot have a best friend for one hundred and fifty four years without trust.”
“You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them.”
“You cannot be betrayed by your enemies, only your friends.”
“There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.”