Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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.

It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth. Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.

If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures — in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.

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

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

To be a man is to be responsible: to be ashamed of miseries you did not cause; to be proud of your comrades' victories; to be aware, when setting one stone, that you are building a world.