Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

"But if you tame me, then weshall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, Ishall be unique in all the world."

"Here is my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes."

"It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important... People have forgotten this truth, but you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose."

"I know a planet where there is a certain red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved any one. He has never done anything in his life but add up figures. And all day he says over and over, just like you: 'I am busy with matters of consequence!' And that makes him swell up with pride. But he is not a man - he is a mushroom!"

"She wished to appear only in the full radiance of her beauty. Oh yes, she was quite vain! And her mysterious adornment had lasted days and days. And then one morning, precisely at sunrise, she showed herself."

"Conceited people never hear anything but praise."

"Go and have another look at the roses. And you will understand that yours is indeed unique in all the world."

"One only understands the things that one tames,” said the fox. “Men haveno more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at theshops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and somen have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me. . ."

"Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends."

"But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you."

"The only things you learn are the things you tame"

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

"You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you --- the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars; because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or bloated, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose."

"If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom."

"Good morning," said the little prince. Good morning," said the merchant. This was a merchant who sold pills that had been invented to quench thirst. You need only swallow one pill a week, and you would feel no need for anything to drink. Why are you selling those" asked the little prince. Because they save a tremendous amount of time," said the merchant. "Computations have been made by experts. With these pills, you save fifty-three minutes in every week."And what do I do with those fifty-three minutes"Anything you like..."As for me," said the little prince to himself, "if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water."

"I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties." "To establish ties" "Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world..."

"Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."

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

"Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day."

"I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again..."