petit prince

One of my favourite books is Le Petit Prince, though I do have many more 'favourites'.  I think it has a lot of really good life lessons hidden throughout.

Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c'est fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours leur donner des explications.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to have to explain things to them always and forever.

Voici mon secret.  Il est tres simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur.  L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

Here is my secret.  It is very simple:  It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Ce qui embellit le desert, dit le petit prince, c'est qu'il cache un puits quelque part...

"What makes the desert beautiful," says the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well."