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.

If France is to be judged, judge her not by the effects of her defeat but by her readiness to sacrifice herself.

People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, the stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights. And for still others, for scholars, they're problems... But all those stars are silent stars. You, though, you'll have stars like nobody else... since I'll be laughing on one of them, for you it'll be as if all the stars are laughing. You'll have stars that can laugh!... and it'll be as if I had given you, instead of stars, a lot of tiny bells that know how to laugh.

Only the children know what they are looking for.

To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction.

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.

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