Quotes by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"It is such a secret place, the land of tears."

"No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls."

"Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart."

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."

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

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

"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded."

"You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose."

"Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree."

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

"For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow."

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

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

"I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin."

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

"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."

"War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."

"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."

"I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin."

"We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men."