The Little Prince

"They never say to you, "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?" Instead, they demand "How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?" Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him."

What this phrase means is that when never we met someone or when someone asks us how a person is they always asks about supperficial things. It`s not common that this person ask us about the things that are really important,the things that tell us who the person is inside.
Mostly when you bring a boyfriend to your house they always ask questions in order to know how the person is in the outside, they want to know first of all the appearence of him.

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

This phrase means that even the things that we think that can´t have or give ANYTHING has something deep inside them. How many times it happend to us that we don´t pay attention to someone or something because we think that it can´t do anything well and it ends helping us a lot.