The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery Technology
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. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery God
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. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery Work
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery Inspirational
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery Truth
A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery Knowledge
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery Men
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery Life
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. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery Thankful
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery Imagination
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. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery Respect
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery Happiness
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.' -Antoine de Saint-Exupery Men
It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery Happiness
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery Attitude
