Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

"For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow."

"I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin."

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

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

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."

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

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

"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together."

"War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."