Straight ahead you can't go very far.
People have forgotten this truth, the fox said. But you mustn’t forget it. You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed. You’re responsible for your rose.
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
Mais les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le cœur.
If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.
If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
If I am attempting to describe him, it is in order not to forget him. It is sad to forget a friend. Not every one has had a friend.
I am not talking about living dangerously. Such words are meaningless to me. The toreador does not stir me to enthusiasm. It is not danger I love. I know what I love. It is life.
Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you What does his voice sound like? What games does he...
Grown-ups like numbers. When you tell them about a new friend, they never ask questions about what really matters. They never ask: ‘What does his voice sound like?’ ‘What games does he like best?’ ‘Do...
Children understand.
Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince.So that I may forget, replied the tippler.Forget what? inquired the little prince, who was already sorry for him.Forget that I am ashamed, the tippler...
Man sieht nur mit dem Herzen gut, das wesentliche ist für die Augen unsichtbar.
Les étoiles sont belles, à cause d'une fleur que l'on ne voit pas...
Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c'est fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours et toujours leur donner des explications.
Les contes de fées c'est comme ça. Un matin on se réveille. On dit: Ce n'était qu'un conte de fées... On sourit de soi. Mais au fond on ne sourit guère. On sait bien que les contes de fées c'est la se...
Je suis la source de toute vie. Je suis la marée qui entre en vous et vous aime et se retire. Je suis l'amour qui entre en vous et dure pour l'éternité.
I was sad, but I told them: I am tired.
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.