“I decided that before this I had understood nothing, about this little flower,’ the little prince continued, ‘that I should judge her, not by her words but by what she did. She filled me with her fragrance, she had brought joy to my life. I should never leave her. I should have recognised what a sensitive sweet soul there was under all her rather inept and silly games. Flowers are so contrary. […]”

“You have to expect from everyone only what it is possible for them to do. All authority is based on reason. If you order your people to go and throw themselves in the sea, there would be a revolution. I have the right to expect them to obey me only if my orders are reasonable.”

“On his way again the little prince thought to himself: ‘These grown-ups are really odd.”

“Perplexed, the little prince went on his way, thinking all the while: ‘My goodness, some of these grown-up folk are really very strange folk indeed.”

“Of course it is perfectly possible to be conscientious and lazy at the same time.”

“Language is the cause of so many misunderstandings.”

“The important things in life you cannot see with your eyes, only with your heart.”

The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry