Nothing can match the treasure of common memories.

If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes." "Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry..." "They are lucky," the switchman said.

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.