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.

Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

I have always learned to distinguish the important from the urgent.

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

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.

Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. "So that I may forget," replied the tippler. "Forget what?" inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him. "Forget that I am ashamed," the tippler confessed, hanging his head. "Ashamed of what?" insisted the little prince, who wanted to help him. "Ashamed of drinking!