Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...

I wonder,_ he said, __hether 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__ 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.

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

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...

The only things you learn are the things you tame

You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.