Victor Hugo

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.

When I am writing, my problems become invisible and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.