Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

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

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

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.