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.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Those who pass by us, do not go alone, and do not leave us alone; they leave a bit of themselves, and take a little of us.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery