Quotes by Exupery

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint"

"True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. -Antoine de Saint"

"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"

"What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. -Antoine de Saint"

"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"

"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. -Antoine de Saint"

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint"

"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"

"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. -Antoine de Saint"

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

"War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. -Antoine de Saint"

"When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. -Antoine de Saint"

"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"