How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.What is true is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see clearly.

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.

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.

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

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

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