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

“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.”

“No one is ever satisfied where he is.” 

“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.” 

“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.” 

“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.” 

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

“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.” 

“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.” 

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate."

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

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

"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."