Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.

I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

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

He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see...' I answered, 'Yes, of course.

When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

"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."