Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Change in all things is sweet.

All human beings, by nature, desire to know.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."

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

“No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. 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"

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

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

"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.”