"And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you..."

"The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate."

"If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom."

"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."

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

"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings."

"How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being."

"He is not admiring the colours of the earth and sky, the marks of the wind on the sea, the gilded clouds of twilight; they are the objects of his meditation."

"People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...They don't find it," I answered.And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."Of course," I answered.And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart."

"One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up."

"But if you tame me, then weshall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, Ishall be unique in all the world."

"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."

"Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?"

"I picked up one and then a second and then a third of these stones, finding them at about the rate of one stone to the acre. And here is where my adventure became magical, for in a striking foreshortening of time that embraced thousands of years, I had become the witness of this miserly rain from the stars. the marvel of marvels was that there on the rounded back of the planet, between this magnetic sheet and those stars, a human consciousness was present in which as in a mirror that rain could be reflected."

"Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."

"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them."

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

"One only understands the things that one tames, said the fox. "Men haveno more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at theshops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and somen have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me. . ."

"When you give yourself, you receive more than you give."

"I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old."

"Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction."

"Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed."

"Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom."

"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."

"For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow."

"It's hard luck always having to be a judge."

"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."

"The truth for a man, it's what makes him a man."

"Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart."

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward in the same direction."

"He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass."

"If a composer suffers from loss of sleep and his sleeplessness induces him to turn out masterpieces, what a profitable loss it is!"

"There is no hope or joy except in human relations."

"My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored."

"That will be so amusing! You will have five hundred million little bells,and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water..."

"The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time."

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

"The only things you learn are the things you tame."

"But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise."

"Of course I love you. It is my fault that you have not known it all the while (the flower to little prince)"

"The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen...."

"There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations."

"The best place for discovering what a man is is the heart of the desert. Your plane has broken down, and you walk for hours, heading for the little fort at Nutchott. You wait for the mirages of thirst to gape before you. But you arrive and you find an old sergeant who has been isolated for months among the dunes, and he is so happy to be found that he weeps. And you weep, too. In the arching immensity of the night, each tells the story of his life, each offers the other the burden of memories in which the human bond is discovered. Here two men can meet, and they bestow gifts upon each other with the dignity of ambassadors."

"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."

"Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."

"Alone within the vast tribunal that is the stormy sky, the pilot is in contention for his mailbags with three elemental divinities: mountain, sea and storm."

"We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men."

"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten"."

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."

"A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them."