Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When faith burns itself out, ’tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Where I live, everything is very small.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You’re not a man, you’re a mushroom!

Antoine de Saint-Exupery