Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.

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

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

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

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.