Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

When he has finished getting himself ready in the morning, he must go get the planet ready.

"Then you shall judge yourself," the king answered. "That is the most difficult thing of all. It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.

If somebody wants a sheep, that is proof that somebody exists.

"I should never have listened to her," he confided to me one day, "One should never listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance."

I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset...

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Dessine-moi un mouton!

"Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"

But the little prince made no reply.