It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyHere is my secret. It is very simple: one sees well only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAlthough human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyWhen one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyNo destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyFor I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery