I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.
They never say to you, ‘What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?’ Instead, they demand ‘How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much money does his father make?’ Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
I was too young to know how to love her.
But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.
Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again.
That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it’s because you’re truly a wise man.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me...
No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.
But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes...
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams...
What does tamed mean? It’s something that’s been too often neglected. It means to create ties.
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.