I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Navigating by the compass in a sea of clouds over Spain is all very well, it is very dashing, but - you… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
When we think that the machine will harm man, then it is perhaps because we are not yet capable of judging the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The magic of the craft has opened for me a world in which I shall confront, within two hours, the black dragons… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
A pilot's business is with the wind, and with the stars, with night, with sand, with the sea. He strives to outwit… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I don't understand these people anymore, that travel the commuter-trains to their dormitory towns. These people that call themselves human, but, by… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“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… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
“perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“But for fear of disheartening them, we also spoke to them of disappointments and the bitter taste that rest has after a useless action.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
“The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“You are beautiful but you are empty. One could not die for you” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share
“You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
“Stretched out before the fire I looked at the glowing fruit and said to myself that men did not know what an orange was.… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share
