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

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

Sleep comes more easily than it returns.