Antoine de Saint Exupery

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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 to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed.

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

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one allows himself to be tamed.

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.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

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

If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

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.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

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

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

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

It is only with one's heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.

You know you have achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

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