Toutes les grandes personnes ont d'abord été des enfants (mais peu d'entre elles s'en souviennent). - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Les toutes grandes personnes ont d'abord été des enfants.

"If some one loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. He can say to himself, 'Somewhere, my flower is there...' But if the sheep eats the flower, in one moment all his stars will be darkened... And you think that is not important!"
He could not say anything more. His words were choked by sobbing.

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you — - the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered; because it is she that I have put under the glass globe; because it is she that I have sheltered behind the screen; because it is for her that I have killed the caterpillars; because it is she that I have listened to, when she grumbled, or bloated, or even sometimes when she said nothing. Because she is my rose.

"Olá , bom dia! - disse o principezinho.
- Olá , bom dia! - disse o vendedor.
Era um vendedor de comprimidos para tirar a sede. Toma-se um por semana e deixa-se de ter necessidade de beber.
- Porque é que andas a vender isso? - perguntou o principezinho.
- Porque é uma grande economia de tempo - respondeu o vendedor. - Os cálculos foram feitos por peritos. Poupam-se cinquenta e três minutos por semana.
- E o que se faz com esses cinquenta e três minutos?
- Faz-se o que se quiser...
"Eu", pensou o principezinho, "eu cá se tivesse cinquenta e três minutos para gastar, punha-me era a andar muito de mansinho à procura de uma fonte...