I wonder, he said, whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...
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 u...
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 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...
Droit devant soi on ne peut pas aller bien loin...
Don't linger like this. You have decided to go away. Now go!
C’est comme pour la fleur. Si tu aimes une fleur qui se trouve dans une étoile, c’est doux, la nuit, de regarder le ciel. Toutes les étoiles sont fleuries.
Children understand.
Adieu, dit-il…- Adieu, dit le renard. Voici mon secret. Il est très simple : on ne voit bien qu’avec le coeur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.- L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux, répéta...
Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.
The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
لا نبصر جيدا إلا بالقلب، والشيء المهم لا تراه الأعين
الكبار يحبون الأرقام، فإذا حدثتهم عن صديق عرفته حديثًا أغفلوا مزاياه الجوهرية ولم يسألوك عن رقة صوته ولا عمّا يؤثر من الألعاب ولا عن رغبته في جمع الفراشات، بل يسألونك: في أي سنة هو، وكم عدد إخوته، وكم...
Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé.
To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
Only the children know what they are looking for.
No one is ever satisfied where he is.
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.