It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived.... — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Why are you drinking? demanded the little prince. "So that I may forget," replied the tippler. "Forget what?" inquired the little prince,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these… — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
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 Image
“The stars are beautiful, because of a flower that cannot be seen.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“You are beautiful but you are empty. One could not die for you” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Flying is a man's job and its worries are a man's worries. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image