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.

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.