“But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.”

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.

No one is ever satisfied where he is.

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

One’s suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields – even to sadness.

What makes the desert beautiful,’ said the little prince, ‘is that somewhere it hides a well.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

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

A man’s age is something impressive, it sums up his life.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.

You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.

Love is so blind, it feels right when it’s wrong.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

Love is not blind. It simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.

Writing is the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.