Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.

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

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

I saw the sunset forty-four times!

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.

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.