To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.

It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changes

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.

All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them--

"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."