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

"You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water..."

"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."

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

"I looked about me. Luminous points glowed in the darkness. Cigarettes punctuated the humble meditations of worn old clerks. I heard them talking to one another in murmurs and whispers. They talked about illness, money, shabby domestic cares. And suddenly I had a vision of the face of destiny. Old bureaucrat, my comrade, it is not you who are to blame. No one ever helped you to escape. You, like a termite, built your peace by blocking up with cement every chink and cranny through which the light might pierce. You rolled yourself up into a ball in your genteel security, in routine, in the stifling conventions of provincial life, raising a modest rampart against the winds and the tides and the stars. You have chosen not to be perturbed by great problems, having trouble enough to forget your own fate as a man. You are not the dweller upon an errant planet and do not ask yourself questions to which there are no answers. Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning."

"Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day."

"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."

"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..."

"No one is ever satisfied where he is."

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

"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."

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."

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

"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."

"A goal without a plan is just a wish."

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

"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."

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

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

"You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water..."

"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."

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