Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“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.”

“It is such a secret place, the land of tears.”

“I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.”

“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.”

“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.”

“A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.”

“One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.”

“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.”

“Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.”

“How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.”

“No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.”

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”

“Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.”

“Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?”

“True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.”

“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.”

“We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.”

“Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

“The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.”