Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are. ”

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. ”

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. ”

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. ”

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ”

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. ”

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something. ”

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

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree. ”

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