Grown-ups love figures. When you talk to them about a new friend, they never ask questions about essential matters.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

He is among those beings of great scope who spread their leafy branches willingly over broad horizons. To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to know shame at the sight of poverty which is not of our making. It is to be proud of a victory won by our comrades. Furthermore, it is to feel, as we place our stone, that we are contributing to the building of the world.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

He is not admiring the colors of the earth and sky, the marks of the wind on the sea, the gilded clouds of twilight; they are the objects of his meditation.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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

How is it possible for one to own the stars?"" To whom do they belong?" the businessman retorted, peevishly." I don't know. To nobody.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

How shallow is the stage on which this vast drama of human hates and joys and friendships is played! Whence do men draw this passion for eternity, flung by chance as they are upon a scarcely cooled bed of lava, threatened by the beginning by the deserts that are to be, under the constant menace of the snows? Their civilizations are but fragile gilding: a volcano can blot them out, a new sea, a sand-storm.

— 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

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