"Goodbye, said the fox. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"'What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...'"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"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 for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."

"Of course," I answered.

And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart." "
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"'I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?'

'It is an act too often neglected,' said the fox. 'It means to establish ties.'

'To establish ties?'

'Just that,' said the fox. 'To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world...'"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Le Petit Prince)

"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near--

"Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry."

"It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ."

"Yes, that is so," said the fox.

"But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince.

"Yes, that is so," said the fox.

"Then it has done you no good at all!"

"It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields." "
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them...In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night...You - only you - will have stars that can laugh."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (El Principito / The Little Prince)

"If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers..."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

""My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens: men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. 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. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then look: you see the grain fields down yonder? [...] The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back to the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wheat in the wind..." "
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you..."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince - Le Petit Prince)

"On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Love doesn't require two people look at each other, but that they look together in the same direction"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"But on your tiny planet, my little prince, all you need do is move your chair a few steps. You can see the day end and the twilight falling whenever you like...

"One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!"

And a little later you added: "You know, one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." "Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"

But the little prince made no reply."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince and "Letter to a Hostage ")

"You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Le Petit Prince)

"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"'You are not at all like my rose,' he said. 'As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world.'

And the roses were very much embarrassed.

'You are beautiful, but you are empty,' he went on. 'One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you — the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars (except the two or three that we saved to become butterflies); because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or boasted, or ever sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.'"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"They never say to you, 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?' Instead, they demand 'How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much money does his father make?' Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"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 inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her..."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"Many of you have forgotten this truth
but you must never forget it:
you remain responsible, forever,
for what you have tamed."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"You become responsible forever for what you have tamed."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

""I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...""
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Experience shows us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Le Petit Prince)

"Grown-ups love figures. When you tell them that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about essentail matters. They never say to you, “What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?” Instead, they demand: “How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?” Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water..."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems. For my businessman, they were gold. But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else."
"What do you mean?"

"When you look up at the sky at night, since I'll be living on one of them, since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you, it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh!"

And he laughed again.

"And when you're consoled (everyone is eventually consoled), you'll be glad you've known me. You'll always be my friend. You'll feel like laughing with me. And you'll open your windows sometimes just for the fun of it... And your friends will be amazed to see you laughing while you're looking up at the sky. Then you'll tell them, 'Yes, it's the stars. They always make me laugh!'"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"“I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.”

"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"It's so mysterious, the land of tears."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"A goal without a plan is just a wish. "
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"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. "
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"adieu, dit le renard, voici mon secret. il est tres simple. on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass. "
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"What makes the desert beautiful, said the little prince, is that somewhere it hides a well..."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.""
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

"In every crowd are certain persons who seem just like the rest, yet they bear amazing messages."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Night Flight)

"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Grownups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiring for children to always be explaining things to them."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (El principito & Piloto de guerra/ The Little Prince & War Pilot)

"...love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry