But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

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.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.