And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.

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

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.

Grown ups are certainly very strange.

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.

To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.