Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.Collection: Travel
You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.Collection: Love
To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend.Collection: Forget
We understand … that what constitutes the dignity of a craft is that it creates a fellowship, that it binds men together and fashions for them a common language.Collection: Fashion
It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.Collection: Judging
A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit the forces of nature. He stares with expectancy for the coming of the dawn the way a gardener awaits the coming of spring. He looks forward to port as a promised land, and truth for him is what lives in the stars.Collection: Stars
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.Collection: Discovery
Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.Collection: Reality
I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.Collection: Travel
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.Collection: Education
The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.Collection: Photography
A goal without a pan is just a wish.Collection: Goal
Language is the source of misunderstandings.Collection: Travel
The important thing is to strive toward a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but of the spirit.Collection: Inspirational
Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself.Collection: Lying
The Beauty of the Mountain is hidden for all those who try to discover it from the top, supposing that, one way or an other, one can reach this place directly. The Beauty of the Mountain reveals only to those who climbed it.Collection: Supposing That
One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.Collection: Sadness
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.Collection: Love
A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.Collection: Memories
Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.Collection: Love
It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.Collection: Adversity
Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.Collection: Truth
You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.Collection: Morning
GOOD MORNING," said the little prince. "Good Morning," said the salesclerk. This was a salesclerk who sold pills invented to quench thirst. Swallow one a week and you no longer feel any need to drink. "Why do you sell these pills?" "They save so much time," the salesclerk said. "Experts have calculated that you can save fifty-three minutes a week." "And what do you do with those fifty-three minutes?" "Whatever you like." "If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked," the little prince said to himself, "I'd walk very slowly toward a water fountain.Collection: Morning
A man has many parts, he is virtually everything, and you are free to select in him that part which pleases you.Collection: Men
The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.Collection: Soldier
The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us.Collection: Strong
Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.Collection: Science
It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.Collection: War
Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning.Collection: Men
True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.Collection: Love You
And they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted express. "Are they pursuing the first travelers?" demanded the little prince. "They are pursuing nothing at all," said the switchman. "They are asleep in there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children are flattening their noses against the windowpanes." "Only the children know what they are looking for," said the little prince. "They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry..." "They are lucky," the switchman said.Collection: Children
I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.Collection: Life
Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.Collection: Block
People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems... But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else... since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh!... and it'll be as if I had given you, instead of stars, a lot of tiny bells that know how to laugh.Collection: Stars
But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.Collection: Heart
If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.Collection: Shine On
We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.Collection: Home
If it is true that wars are won by believers, it is also true that peace treaties are sometimes signed by businessmen.Collection: War
To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.Collection: May
The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.Collection: Goal
Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.Collection: Art
I'll look as if I'm dead, and that won't be true.' I said nothing. 'You understand. It's too far. I can't take this body with me. It's too heavy.' I said nothing. 'But it'll be like an old abandoned shell. There's nothing sad about an old shell...' I said nothing. 'It'll be nice, you know. I'll be looking at the stars, too. All the stars will be wells with a rusty pulley. All the stars will pour out water for me to drink...' I said nothing. 'And it'll be fun! You'll have five-hundred million little bells; I'll have five-hundred million springs of fresh water...' And he, too, said nothing more.Collection: Stars
The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.Collection: Hair
That's the way they are. You must not hold it against them. Children should be very understanding of grown-ups.Collection: Children
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them in particular caused by what we compare it to: something worse and we feel grateful for what we have; something better and we feel somehow let down.Collection: Gratitude
One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.Collection: Firsts
Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.Collection: World
I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.Collection: Sympathy