Victor Hugo

"Every wall is a door; you just have to know how to open it."

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

"A society that denies education to its people is a society that enslaves them."

"In the kingdom of conscience, the lowest man is a king."

"Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it makes the whole being of a man."

"Nothing is more important than a good education, nothing is more precious than virtue."

"The supreme happiness of life is to know that we are loved unconditionally."

"The wretched of the earth are the power of tomorrow."

"Mistakes are the price of education in this life."

"Every hour of every day is an opportunity to change your life."

"The greatest joys are the simple ones."

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

"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise."

"One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor."

"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."

"When a man is prey to melancholy, he should avoid being alone."

"Music expresses that which cannot be said in words and that which cannot remain silent."

"The mind feeds upon great thoughts."

"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher."

"God is present in all things."

"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."

"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."

"Take away time, and what becomes of history."

"Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come."

"The supreme happiness is to think that one is loved."

"A man is not idle because he is absorbed in his work."

"Tolerance and respect allow the understanding of all phenomena."

"The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA."

"Conscience is God present in man."

"I am the door. I open and close. I open to the deserving, I close to the undeserving."