The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight put your mind on the strategy of the fight and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is no hope or joy except in human relations.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To be a man is precisely to be responsible.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery