Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

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.

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

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

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

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'