“That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.”

“Children should show great understanding towards grown-ups”

“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them”

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

“Grown ups are certainly very strange.”

“It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet. you must be sure you pull up the baobabs regularly, as soon as you can tell them apart from the rosebushes, which they closely resemble when they're very young. It's very tedious work, but very easy.”

“Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, 'Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?' And you'll see how everything changes...And no grown-up will ever understand how such a thing could be so important.”