The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
I am beginning to understand,” said the little prince. “There is a flower… I think that she has tamed me…
I should have based my judgement upon deeds and not words.
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them
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.
The house, the stars, the desert — what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!
Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.
You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water…
Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu’avec le cœur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
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.
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.
And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
It’s the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important…People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.
But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.
People have forgotten this truth,” the fox said. “But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.
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…
Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.
I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.
You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water…
And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.