“A sheet spread beneath an apple-tree can receive only apples; a sheet spread beneath the stars can receive only star-dust.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“Something in one's heart takes fright, not at the thought of growing old, not at feeling one's youth used up in this… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is… — 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
