Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

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.

Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.

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

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.