What I see here is nothing but a shell. What is most important is invisible…

But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others.

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed…

But it will be like an old abandoned shell. There is nothing sad about old shells…

…It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.

Children should always show great forbearance toward grown-up people.

I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.

Make of your life a dream, and of a dream a reality.

When you’ve finished your own toilet in the morning, then it is time to attend to the toilet of your planet, just so, with the greatest care.

I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold....

If some one loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. He...

This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the...

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen… The desert is beautiful,” the little prince added. And that was true. I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a...

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.