A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
If you come at four in the afternoon, I'll begin to be happy by three.
The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.
Why should anyone be frightened by a hat?
The best place for discovering what a man is is the heart of the desert. Your plane has broken down, and you walk for hours, heading for the little fort at Nutchott. You wait for the mirages of thirst...
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
No one is ever satisfied where he is....Only the children know what they’re looking for....
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.
For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to p...
I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.
If you love a flower which happens to be on a star, it is sweet at night to gaze at the sky. All the stars are a riot of flowers.
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that tho...
Supposing I know of a flower that is absolutely unique, that is nowhere to be found except on my planet, and any minute that flower could accidentally be eaten up by a little lamb, isn't that importan...
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.