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

What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.

It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you want to remember that below the sea of clouds lies eternity.

To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.