Antoine de saint exupery

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

One can be a brother only in something. Where there is no tie that binds men, men are not united but merely lined up.

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...

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

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.

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

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

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

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.