Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To be a man is to feel that one’s own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Vain is the hope of finding pleasure in that which one has hitherto disdained; as when the warrior hopes to find pleasure in the joys of the sedentaries.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We are forever responsible for that which we have tamed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We don’t ask to be eternal beings. We only ask that things do not lose all their meaning.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery