Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I am who I am and I have the need to be.Collection: Who I Am
That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.Collection: Wise
A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories.Collection: Memories
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.Collection: Sweet
All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travellers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all the stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them--Collection: Stars
You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'Collection: Thinking
We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.Collection: Generations
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.Collection: Philosophy
I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.Collection: Silence
In those days, I didn't understand anything. I should have judged her according to her actions, not her words. She perfumed my planet and lit up my life. I should never have run away! I ought to have realized the tenderness underlying her silly pretensions. Flowers are so contadictory! But I was too young to know how to love her.Collection: Running
The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.Collection: Love
You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.Collection: Inspiring
Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me.Collection: Men
I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.Collection: Sunset
"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."Collection: Nature
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.Collection: Rivers
For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.Collection: Relationship
There is no hope of joy except in human relations.Collection: Friendship
What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.Collection: Mean
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.Collection: Hands
When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?Collection: Mean
Here is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.Collection: Eye
Man is, above all, he who creates.Collection: Men
The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.Collection: Important
The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!Collection: Stars
You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.Collection: Risk
A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.Collection: Smile
Night, when words fade and things come alive.Collection: Night
No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.Collection: Life
Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.Collection: Inspirational
* if someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows, in all the millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.Collection: Love
But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.Collection: Matter
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.Collection: Heart
But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.Collection: Sunshine
You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.Collection: Beautiful
We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.Collection: Emptiness
Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.Collection: Earth
When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.Collection: Stars
I am looking for friends. What does that mean - tame?" "It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties?" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.Collection: Mean
Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.Collection: Lonely
Ephemeral" It means 'which is in danger of speedy disappearance.Collection: Mean
Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.Collection: Pieces
An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.Collection: Doe
Look at the sky. Ask yourselves: Has the sheep eaten the flower, yes or no? And you will see how everything changes.Collection: Flower
You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.Collection: Sunset
Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.Collection: Men
It's all a great mystery...Look up at the sky and you'll see how everything changesCollection: Sky
For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.Collection: Memories