"There is no liberty except the liberty of some one making his way towards something. Such a man can be set free if you will teach him the meaning of thirst, and how to trace a path to a well. Only then will he embark upon a course of action that will not be without significance. You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity - for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?"
"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."
"To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world."
"Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach."
"The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit."
"Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star."
"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."
"We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning."
"Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough."
"Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison."
