Book Quotes

The only thing we really have is nowness, is now.

What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.

I almost got in a good mood. But in time I noticed this dangerous tendency and took control of the situation. Thoroughly dulled, skillfully alarmed...

Surely a gentleman should not lay much stress upon this when a lady is in most desperate need of his help.

There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

«Never mess with someone who has more spare time than you do».

Even if you win three or four times, the next victory will not necessarily be yours without trying.

Coffee is a liquid cigarette.

The flower that you love is not in danger.

Spring was about change, and so were we.

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...

His flower had told him that she was the only one of her kind in all the universe.
And here were five thousand of them, all alike, in one single garden!

"And what good does it do you to own the stars?"
"It does me the good of making me rich."
"And what good does it do you to be rich?"
"It makes it possible for me to buy more stars, if any are discovered."
"This man," the little prince said to himself, "reasons a little like my poor tippler...".

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders.

I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.