I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.

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.

How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.