He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.
He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.
Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.
I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.
The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.
One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.
The only things you learn are the things you tame
Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak.
What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?
No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.
On ne sait jamais! One never knows!
If Someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
It's useful because it's beautiful.
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the asronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.
Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries.
No one is ever satisfied where he is.
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.
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