"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."

You give birth to that on which you fix your mind

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

We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.