Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

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.

He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.

It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.

Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.