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

And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you.

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.

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.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.