"In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages."

"We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning."

"The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together."

"True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived."

"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?"

"Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations."

"True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have."

"Real love begins where nothing is expected in return."

"It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war."

"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."

"The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth."

"Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness."

"Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree."

"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."

"To live is to be slowly born."

"One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love."

"Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas."

"No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls."

"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it."

"A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man."

"Only the children know what they are looking for."

"No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep."

"He who must travel happily must travel light."

"You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad."

"Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star."

"Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you."

"I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body with me. It's too heavy.' I said nothing. 'But it'll be like an old abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell...' I said nothing. 'It'll be nice, you know. I'll be looking at the stars, too. All the stars will be wells with a rusty pulley. All the stars will pour out water for me to drink...' I said nothing. 'And it'll be fun! You'll have five-hundred million little bells; I'll have five-hundred million springs of fresh water...' And he, too, said nothing more."

"To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language."

"The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky."

"The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic."

"For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried; I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites."

"I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed."

"When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world"

"What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties."

"I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace."

"And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery."

"It would have been better to come back at the same hour,” said the fox. “If, for example, you came at four o’clock in the afternoon, then at three o’clock I shall begin to be happy. I shall feel happier and happier as the hour advances. At four o’clock, I shall already be worrying and jumping about. I shall show you how happy I am! But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you . . . One must observe the proper rites . . ."

"Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence."

"If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow"

"But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music."

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

"We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed."

"If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts."

"To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world."

"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."

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

"You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you."

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well."

"I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again."

"Man is a knot into which relationships are tied."

"Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young."

"I don't believe you! Flowers are weak creatures. They are naive. They reassure themselves as best they can. They believe that their thorns are terrible weapons."

"Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."

"One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason."

"It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you."

"If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists."

"The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists."