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

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

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.

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

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

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

The only things you learn are the things you tame

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?

The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.

A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, Granny Weatherwax had once told her, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.

you know what is stupidity? underestimating self

Find the joy and peace in and around you. It is a choice not a condition or destination.

The woe of wrath comes to whoever does wicked acts.

People are simple. People are complicated.

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.

Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.

My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me.