No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. "So that I may forget," replied the tippler. "Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him. "Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head. "Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. "Ashamed of drinking!

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.