Antoine de Saint-Exupery — French Novelist born on June 29, 1900, died on July 31, 1944

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, officially Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, comte de Saint Exupéry was a French aristocrat, writer, poet, and pioneering aviator... (wikipedia)

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.