A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

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

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!" And a little later you added: "You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?" But the little prince made no reply.

The injustice of defeat lies in the fact that its most innocent victims are made to look like heartless accomplices. It is impossible to see behind defeat, the sacrifices, the austere performance of duty, the self-discipline and the vigilance that are there - those things the god of battle does not take account of.

Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.