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

To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.

What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.

You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.