Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes." "Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry..." "They are lucky," the switchman said.

Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.