Sorrow is one of the vibrations that prove the fact of living.

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

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

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.

The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

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