The Little Prince

"If you tame me, then we shall need each other. You will be the only boy in the world to me."

"I understand now why you love your rose. It is the time spent on the rose that matters."

"My flowers have always told me they were unique in all the universe."

"You decide whether you will be a prince or not."

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."

"The drunkard drinks that he may forget he is ashamed."

"I reign, but over what? Over flowers that never disobey."

"Authority without wisdom is tyranny."

"It is love that binds us together."

"I have seen that planet B-612. I have always refused to explain on what that affirmation was based."

"The terrible thing about learning is that it doesn't stop."

"I should have guessed all these secrets from behind such a simple question!"

"One must not forget that when a lamp is lit, it is as if one of the stars is set alight, or one of the flowers."

"What have you done to console yourself in your loneliness?"

"If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists in all the millions and millions of stars, that is enough to make him happy."

"The fact of his own unimportance never occurred to him."

"I ought not to have listened to her. One should never listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their scent."

"My flower is ephemeral, and she has only four thorns to defend herself against the world."

"Grown-ups love figures."

"The conceited man never hears anything but praise."

"What is most important is invisible."

"You see, one loves the sunset, when one is so sad."

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

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

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly."

"People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn't forget it. You remain responsible forever for what you've tamed."

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

"The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart."

"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."

"Drawing pictures of boa constrictors from the outside and from the inside."