We are all youthful barbarians, and only our new toys bring us excitement. That has been the sole purpose of our flights. This one flies higher, that one faster. But now we will make ourselves at home. We will forget the machine, the tool. It is no longer complex; it does what it is supposed to do, unnoticed. And through this tool we will find again the old nature, the nature of the gardener, the navigator, the poet.

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.

I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the Fox-

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.