Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.

She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her.

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.

"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."