Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. ”

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. ”

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made. ”

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

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. ”