It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

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

What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over his sheep very carefully . . ." Then I am happy. And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars.

To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.

The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts.