Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

"She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her..."

"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..."

"People where you live,"the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...They don't find it,"I answered.And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..."Of course,"I answered.And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart."

"Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."

"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."

"You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water..."

"No one is ever satisfied where he is."

"The only things you learn are the things you tame"

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."

"Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day."

"You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water..."

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."

"You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water..."

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."

"When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?"

"All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it."

"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 remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed."