* if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.

Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.

If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?