If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

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.

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The Lyon Aiport in France was renamed in honor of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Prince.