A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten" he says "I was beaten."

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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.

— 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.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Defeat is a thing of weariness of incoherence of boredom.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery