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

When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

What have you come to Earth for?' 'I'm having difficulties with a flower,' the little prince said. 'Ah!' said the snake. And they were both silent.

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.

I wonder," he said, "whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again.