It's hard luck always having to be a judge.

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

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.

I am who I am and I have the need to be.

I am looking for friends. What does that mean - tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.

What sets us against one another is not our aims - they all come to the same thing - but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied reasoning.