ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY

"In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude."

"What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well."

"All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people."

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

"True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have."

"If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers."

"No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born."

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

"One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed."

"Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young."

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

"Words are the source of misunderstandings."

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

"The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky."

"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."

"It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity."

"It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."

"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on."

"Man is, above all, he who creates."

"Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends."

"One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness."

"Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction."

"Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life."

"Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite."

"I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset."

"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."

"It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others."

"And at night I love to listen to the stars. It is like five hundred million little bells."

"To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible."

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

"Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed."

"To forget a friend is sad. Not everyone has had a friend."

"I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind."

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

"There is nothing that can equal the treasure of so many shared memories."

"He who never says "no" is no true man."

"You're not a man, you're a mushroom!"

"True love is visible not to the eyes but to the heart, for eyes may be deceived."

"I still fall for your everyday."

"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."

"There is no hope of joy except in human relations."

"He fell as gently as a tree falls. There was not even any sound."

"Real love begins where nothing is expected in return."

"When you give yourself, you receive more than you give."

"You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you."

"Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day."