Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed.  Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied.  Only those relationships matter.  The body is an old crock that nobody will miss.  I have never known a man to think of himself when dying.  Never.

The one thing that matters is the effort.

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures - in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.