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

You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.