Quotes from Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown?ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.

One day, I watched the sun setting forty-four times......You know...when one is so terribly sad, one loves sunsets.

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.

A smile is often the key thing.One is paid with a smile. One is rewarded with a smile. One is brightened by a smile. And the quality of a smile can make one die.

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.

I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.

Friendship is born from an identity of spiritual goals - from common navigation toward a star.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.

But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.

Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.

He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.

The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.

Tell me who admires you and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.