I know nothing, nothing in the world, equal to the wonder of nightfall in the air.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
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. (“The Little Prince”)
To make a gift of culture is to give thirst. The rest comes as a consequence.
It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
There is an agreeable man in everyone, it goes along with the disagreeable. The mistake made by many is to address themselves stubbornly to the latter.
No man can draw a free breath who does not share with other men a common and disinterested ideal. Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through union in the same high effort.
In my civilization… he who is different from me does not impoverish me, he enriches me… I shall fight against all those who strive to impose a particular way of life upon other ways of life, a particular people upon other peoples, a particular race upon other races, a particular system of thought upon other […]
The grownup’s response to me was to advise me to lay aside my drawing and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. Grown ups never understand anything by themselves, and this is […]
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the workers to gather wood, don’t divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
