I will appoint captains to rule my cities, for it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

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

He who would travel happy must travel lite.

The soldier's body becomes a stock of accessories that are not his property.

GOOD MORNING," said the little prince. "Good Morning," said the salesclerk. This was a salesclerk who sold pills invented to quench thirst. Swallow one a week and you no longer feel any need to drink. "Why do you sell these pills?" "They save so much time," the salesclerk said. "Experts have calculated that you can save fifty-three minutes a week." "And what do you do with those fifty-three minutes?" "Whatever you like." "If I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked," the little prince said to himself, "I'd walk very slowly toward a water fountain.

Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.