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.

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.

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