Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom, and above all futility.

At one time I say to myself: "Surely not! The little prince shuts his flower under her glass globe every night, and he watches over his sheep very carefully . . ." Then I am happy. And there is sweetness in the laughter of all the stars.

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.

Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.