Quotes by writer

"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."

"A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories."

"You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

"I am who I am and I have the need to be."

"It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal."

"The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful."

"If some one loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. He tells himself, "My flower's up there somewhere. . . ." But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?"

"When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?"

"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."

"In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude."