Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

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

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

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

Night, the beloved. 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.

Whoever loves above all the approach of love will never know the joy of attaining it.

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

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.

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.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.