Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

"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."

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.