Saturday, February 13, 2010

Quote: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


“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.”
-  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)
French writer and aviator, best remembered for his book The Little Prince. Comercial pilot before WW2, joined the French Air Force on the outbreak of war, flying reconnaissance missions until the armistice with Germany. . Joined the Free French Forces, disappeared on a reconnaissance flight over the Mediterranean in July 1944.

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