My star will just be one of the stars, for you. And so you will love to watch all the stars in the heavens...they will all be your friends."-the little prince

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

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.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

Liberty was paid for by past sacrifices and given to us as a present gift.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

I believe in innocence until there's proof of guilt and all that.

A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.

It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.

The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.

Let me do all the good I can, to all the people I can, as often as I can, for I shall not pass this way again.

I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.