Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

"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."

We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.