Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - "The Little Prince"
If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - "The Little Prince", 1943
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Love has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

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

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince
You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

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

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

You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery - The Little Prince
One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery