It's useful because it's beautiful.

To live is to be slowly born.

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.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

For instance, if you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three. The closer it gets to four, the happier I'll feel. By four I'll be excited and worried; I'll discover what it costs to be happy! But if you come at any od time, I'll never know when I should prepare my heart... There must be rites.