The Little Prince

You become responsible forever for what you've tamed.

. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you are truly a wise man."

"Why are there no other drawings in this book as big as the drawing of the baobabs?" There's a simple answer: I tried but I couldn't manage it. When I drew the baobabs, I was inspired by a sense of urgency.

worth the trouble.

Sometimes there's no harm in postponing your work until later. But with baobabs, it's always a catastrophe.

if you attend to a baobab too late, you can never get rid of it again.

if it's the seed of a bad plant, you must pull the plant up right away, as soon as you can recognize it. As it happens, there were terrible seeds on the little prince's planet... baobab seeds

The good plants come from good seeds, and the bad plants from bad seeds. But the seeds are invisible.

forced to make a great mental effort to understand this problem all by myself.

My friend never explained anything. Perhaps he thought I was like himself. But I, unfortunately, cannot see a sheep through the sides of a crate. I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old