No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.

We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

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.

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

To live is to be slowly born.