I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.

That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.

True, it is evil that a single man should crush the herd, but see not there the worse form of slavery, which is when the herd crushes out the man.

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

A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.