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

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

"What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well..."

"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."