* 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.

When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.

If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

When you tame someone they become unique to you in all the world

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.