A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.

In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.

But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.

* if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.