Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

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

I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.