Victor Hugo

"To laugh is to risk appearing a fool; to weep is to risk appearing sentimental."

"The supreme privilege of the beautiful is to conceal ugliness."

"There is no birth of consciousness without pain."

"The mind wakes up to itself and begins questioning the source of its own existence."

"Light is the first of painters; light is the law of life."

"The supreme moment in the life of any man is when he chooses his master."

"There is always something of the marvellous in what is strange."

"To love is to act against the world."

"The greatest minds are occupied with what lies beyond this life."

"There is within every human heart a spark of heavenly fire."

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

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

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future."

"God has made a provision for every want of the human heart."

"The capacity to love is the measure of a human being."

"Books are humanity in print."

"Liberty is the only law which genius knows."

"When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"The future has several names: for the weak it is the impossible; for the fainthearted, the unknown; for the thoughtful and valiant, it is the ideal."

"A person is not poor because they have little; they are poor because they desire much."

"The supreme effort of reason is to recognize the play of irrationality."

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age."

"Patience is a virtue that removes mountains."

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination."

"The greatest wealth is health."

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

"Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides."

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