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

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.

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

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.

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.

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle.

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost.

No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

The surest mark of true conversion is humility.

There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one.

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

I suppose you know where this country would be, where the world would be, if everyone who got depressed by the papers stopped reading them.