Antoine de Saint-Exupery

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming – a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life… but what is that something?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I’ll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery