Antoine De Saint Exupery Quotes

No one is ever satisfied where he is....Only the children know what they’re looking for....

Here is my secret. It’s quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.

Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large.If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.

She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.