"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

...just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's not the truth...

Explanations are ghosts of guilt, shadows of sympathy, and I have no use for them.

People who live entirely by the fertility of their imaginations are fascinating, brilliant and often charming, but they should be sat next to at dinner parties, not lived with.

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

Am I eating chicken or tuna?

By 78 you've done everything you're going to do. If you haven't bungee-jumped by the time you're 78 you're not going to do it.

To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

I don't have confidence in my instincts, and I feel like I have to go through a very right-brain and left-brain process.

There is an excellent way to make predictions without the slightest risk of error: predict the past.