Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.

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.

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...

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.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.

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

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

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

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.

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.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...

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.

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.

The only things you learn are the things you tame