Alexandre Dumas, fils

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies."

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

"All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal."

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it."

"Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"Life is a flower of which love is the honey."

"Passion is the genesis of genius."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."

"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

"Woman is the poetry of life, man is merely the prose."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly."

"Love is the most beautiful of all the sentiments."

"In the garden of life, passion is the rarest flower."

"Time is the fire in which we burn."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"Every moment of your life is infinitely creative."

"Truth is like the sun; you cannot look directly at it."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but triumph over it."

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."