Victor Hugo

"Open your eyes and see beauty in everything."

"The most powerful form of nonviolence is when you refuse to allow the oppressor to define you."

"When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who let it happen, those who make it happen, and those who wonder what happened."

"The soul of our planet is not corrupt; it is our decisions that corrupt it."

"Tolerance is the highest law."

"Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world, a mother's love is not."

"The supreme pleasure is to do one's duty."

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

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

"Every person who dies is a library that burns."

"The greatest names in our history were men who understood the value of effort and persistence."

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the army of his enemies."

"Music has the power to move the strongest fortress inside us."

"The only thing required for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing."

"Be like the bird that pauses in its flight awhile on boughs too slight to bear her weight."

"Love has reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed."

"Where there is love, there is also wisdom."

"The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most of it."

"The future depends upon what you do today."

"Strong convictions precede great actions."

"Learning teaches how to carry the load of the world without sinking beneath it."

"There is a spectator in us who, no matter how far we have wandered, calls us back."

"The supreme law of justice is conscience."

"A dream is a secret made by the soul and the night."

"Nothing is more dangerous than discontinuous labor; nothing is healthier than regular work."

"The infinite is there, shining out of the depths of everything."

"Take my hand: we will go together through the storm."

"One can resist the invasion of an army, but not an idea whose hour has struck."

"Liberty, equality, fraternity or death—this is our motto."