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

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

One only really sees with the heart.

You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.