True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

C'est véritablement utile puisque c'est joli. It is truly useful since it is beautiful.

When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.

I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.