The Little Prince

"If you love a flower, don't pluck it; because if you pluck it it dies and it ceases to be what you love."

"I am looking for friends. What does that mean 'tame'?"

"The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen."

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

"People have stars, but they aren't the same."

"I am who I am and I cannot pretend to be what I am not."

"Grown-ups like numbers."

"If I were to describe all the characteristics of my rose, you'd think I was making it up."

"I have a little pain in my heart."

"Draw me a sheep."

"The things you own end up owning you."

"One cannot be lonely if one is loved."

"I wonder whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own."

"Flowers are weak things with thorns."

"I am afraid, I am afraid I shall be no longer understood."

"To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend."

"It is forbidden to love anybody else."

"The baobabs are bigger than cathedrals."

"You're beautiful, but you're empty. One couldn't die for you."

"What brings my rose to life is that she believed she was unique in the world."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"Every man has his stars."

"In one of the stars, I shall be living. In one of them, I shall be laughing."

"You don't need a remedy for the disease of living."

"When you want to coax a bird to you, you don't run after it."

"A person has to have a dream."

"The rose said to me, 'You are responsible for your rose.'"

"To be a grown-up is to cease to understand."

"I am who I am and I cannot pretend to be otherwise"

"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves"