Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

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

We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

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.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.