In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.

Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.

I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.

If you want to build a ship, teach the men to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.