People commit suicide through weakness, not through strength.
Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go.
Only fools want to be great.
It is good to put your life in other people's hands.
If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?
It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for.