“Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.”

“The best place for discovering what a man is is the heart of the desert. Your plane has broken down, and you walk for hours, heading for the little fort at Nutchott. You wait for the mirages of thirst to gape before you. But you arrive and you find an old sergeant who has been isolated for months among the dunes, and he is so happy to be found that he weeps. And you weep, too. In the arching immensity of the night, each tells the story of his life, each offers the other the burden of memories in which the human bond is discovered. Here two men can meet, and they bestow gifts upon each other with the dignity of ambassadors.”

“Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.”

“To love does not mean to look at each other, but to work together in the same direction.”

“Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.”

“that's right," the fox said. For me you're only a little boy just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need for you. And you have no need for me,either. For you I'm only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, we'll need each other. You'll be the only boy in the world for me. I'll be the only fox in the world for you...”

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