The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.

Cries of despair, misery, sobbing grief are a kind of wealth.

And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons and the crowned crests of a coma of blue lightnings, and when night has fallen I, delivered, shall read my course in the starts.