If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

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

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.

She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.