"If I had fifty-three minutes to spend..." - Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery

“I don't understand these people anymore, that travel the commuter-trains to their dormitory towns. These people that call themselves human, but, by a pressure they do not feel, are forced to do their work like ants. With what do they fill their time when they are free of work on their silly little Sundays? I am very fortunate in my profession. I feel like a farmer, with the airstrips as my fields. Those that have once tasted this kind of fare will not forget it ever. Not so, my friends?”

“Truths may clash without contradicting each other.”

“No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.”

“Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after so many things at the same time, that while we too eagerly look after the least we miss the greatest.”

“Not everything," he said. "Not the important things. My kids are safe. You're safe. That's all I really care about. This" - he said motioning - "is just stuff. Most of it can be replaced. It just takes time.”

“You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.”

“Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.”

“Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth.”

“Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid.”