To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

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.

The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

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

It's hard luck always having to be a judge.