Quotes from Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

Good taste" is a virtue of the keepers of museums. If you scorn bad taste, you will have neither painting nor dancing, neither palaces nor gardens.

There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

He who must travel happily must travel light.

if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?a sheep eats whatever it findseven a flower with thorn?even a flower with thorns.then what's the good of thorns?

One must command from each what each can preform.

For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or joy except in human relations.

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings.

I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Intelligence is not creative; judgment is not creative. If a sculptor is nothing but skill and mind, his hands will be without genius.

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

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.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

Let your dream devour your life, not your life devour your dream.

You know... when you are sad you love the sunsets.