I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

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.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

Friends are like books, you learn from every one of them.

Well what would you expect?" she sputtered. "They can call themselves privateers, but we all know they're just pirates with papers.

I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

I'm just not going to spend a lot of political capital solving some other guy's problem in 2010.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.

Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even last month's manual should be out of date

Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.