"I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin."

"Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world"

"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures --in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together."

"The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there -- those things the god of battle does not take account of."

"Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility."

"What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone."

"What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone."

"You are beautiful, but you are empty. 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. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered."

"A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them."

"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made."

"A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind."

"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."

"When you give yourself, you receive more than you give."

"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind."

"How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being."

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."

"He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man."

"You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose."

"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them."

"Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men."

"To be a man is 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."

"Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

"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."

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

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

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

“In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contradictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.” 

“In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contradictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.” 

“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.” 

“I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.” 

“I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.” 

“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.” 

“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.” 

“No one is ever satisfied where he is.” 

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

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

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

"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new."

"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."

"Man's "progress" is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning"

"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself."

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction"

"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born."

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."

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

"Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking 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."

"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."