"I am beginning to understand," said the..." - Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery

“Action and personal happiness have no truck with each other; they are eternally at war.”

“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.”

“If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.”

“In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.”

“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?”

“Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.”

“Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.”

“I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”

“Melinda [Gates] has been my partner in raising the kids and I went from before I met her, intentionally having an unbalanced life, to having a more balanced life with all sorts of fun things that she and I do together.”