"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."

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

'You must be very patient,' replied the fox. 'First you will sit down at a little distance from me-like that-in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day...” 

“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...” 

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

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

"It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys."

"Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it."

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?"

A constitution is the arrangement of magistrates in a state.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

All human beings, by nature, desire to know.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Change in all things is sweet.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.