That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.

To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.

He who would travel happy must travel lite.

The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.

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.

I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.