"I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"A goal without a plan is just a wish."
"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."
"I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed."
"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
"If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."
"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."
"No one is ever satisfied where he is."
"I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again..."
"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."