Quotes by writer

"The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart."

"Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less."

"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."

"The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!"

"If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea."

"Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why, I want to know, are not traitors decorated?"

"Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault."

"Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart, what need for severity?"

"if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?"

"One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply."