Der Kleine Prinz Quotes & Sayings

The shadow of greed, attachment is. What you fear to lose, train yourself to release. Let go of fear, and loss cannot harm you. — Terry Brooks

There was a stricken conscience of public guilt and we all felt that we had been wrong, that something was wrong with that building which we had accepted or the tragedy never would have happened. Moved by this sense of stricken guilt, we banded ourselves together to find a way by law to prevent this kind of disaster. — Frances Perkins

Suffering often draws us closer to God. Instead of being a sign of God's punishment or distance, suffering can purify us, lead us into the heart of God, and transform our souls. — Allen R. Hunt

When people in other parts of the world hear the term "food fast," they envision a time of spiritual and physical cleansing. I hear "food fast" and I envision a drive-thru. — Jim Gaffigan

A liberal education forms ... a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize the same stamp on all the arts, and an intercourse between all studies, and so they more readily comprehend them all. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

This is not mathematics, it is theology.
(On being exposed to Hilbert's work in invariant theory.) — Paul Gordan

Retirement from work has depressed many a man and hastened his death. — Ezra Taft Benson

Now before we get into anything, ladies, no scratching, no spitting and no tattling to mummy. — Eoin Colfer

Interested is good. Interested is how everything starts. — Cassandra Dunn

Tyranny is a form of perversion. We come to love it. Every government is a tyranny to a degree, and the more evil it is, the more it is loved. The difficulty lies in judging the degree of tyranny under which you live. — Geoff Ryman

I got my first lifetime achievement award years ago, and I was very excited, but then I got a sense of: Well, can one get a second lifetime award? — Michael Palin

May I always be found 'on the Lord's errand.' — Thomas S. Monson