Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

‘The eyes do not see that which is most important,’ the little prince repeated, so that he would remember.

‘It is the time you have spent with your rose that makes your rose so important.’

‘It is the time I have spent with my rose …’ repeated the little prince, so that he wouldn’t forget

“Everything that is important can’t be seen”

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

"You know-one loves the sunset, when one is so sad . . ."

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth.

But I was not reassured. I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed . . .

"The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen ..."

"One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace. This tale of claws, which disturbed me so much, should only have filled my heart with tenderness and pity."

"The fact is that I did not know how to understand anything! I ought to have judged by deeds and not by words. She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her

, he realized that he was very close to tears.