Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
“What makes the desert beautiful,” said the little prince, “is that somewhere it hides a well... ”
It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.
You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.