Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

"Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. "But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.

The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.

The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

The friend within the man is that part of him which belongs to you and opens to you a door which never, perhaps, is opened to another. Such a friend is true, and all he says is true; and he loves you even if he hates you in other mansions of his heart.

It was the contemplation of God that created men who were equal, for it was in God that they were equal.

To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.