“The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.”
“How different would your world be if you looked in the mirror and saw your best friend looking back at you?”
“A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot.”
“Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.”
“If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.”
“This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.”