"For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to p..."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me..."
"Please-tame me!' he said.'I want to, very much,' the little prince replied. 'But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand.''One only understands the thin..."
"She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsi..."
"No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born."
"That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man."
"You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water..."
"What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well..."
"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."
"People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...They don't find it," I answered.And yet what they're looking f..."