Quotes from Antoine de SaintExupery

To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity, and he will set fire to the world.

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

Defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom.

There is no hope or joy except in human relations.

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

Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

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

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are, and not another. You are free to be that man, but not free to be another.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered; it is something moulded.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say, "My men were beaten," he says, "I was beaten."

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.