The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Look up at the sky. Ask yourselves: is it yes or no? Has the sheep eaten the flower? And you will see how everything changes... And no grown-up will ever understand that this is a matter of so much importance!

For, to conceited men, all other men are admirers.

You have decided to go away. Now go!

And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me.

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!

If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him.

Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

... I have listened to...when she said nothing.
Because she is my rose.

"If you want a friend, tame me..."
"What must I do, to tame you?" asked the little prince.
"You must be very patient," replied the fox.
"First you will sit down at a little distance from me — like that — in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing... But you will sit a little closer to me, every day..."

I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower.
He has never looked at a star.
He has never loved any one.
He has never done anything in his life but add up figures.
And all day he says over and over, just like you:
'I am busy with matters of consequence!'
And that makes him swell up with pride.
But he is not a man — he is a mushroom!

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...

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

Words are the source of misunderstandings.

I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn't much improved my opinion of them.

It is a good thing to have had a friend, even if one is about to die.

I wonder whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...