If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
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.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me...
Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
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...
You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...
Fais de ta vie un rêve, et d'un rêve, une réalité.
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.