Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered it is something molded.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man but not free to be another.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory and in creative action that man finds his supreme joy.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is in your act that you exist not in your body. Your act is yourself and there is no other you.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Let a man in a garret burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery