The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.

I showed the grown ups my maasterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a down spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh.

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."