You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad...""Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"But the little prince made no reply.

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.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

Women are the sustaining force of any society - they think of the children and the next generation's chances.

Marriage is anti-romantic - husband and wife are terms like 'turkey' and 'goose.' Worse, they denote ownership.

Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

I love to shop. Clothes, electronics, and I love jewelry, especially yellow gold.

I think that there is something in the human psyche, that when it approaches a big mark up point it tends to get doom laden.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

My inspiration was the game itself, not any individual player in it.