Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away.

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

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

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

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

'What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well.'

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to know shame at the sight of poverty which is not of our making.

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.

The earth teaches us more about ourselves than all the books in the world, because it is resistant to us.