Ah," cried Gavroche, "what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.

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

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Perfection is pure action that comes with zeal to excel.

Nobody loves the head of a dandelion. Maybe because they are so many, strong, and soon.

I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.

A lot of the time I hate the theater. You think, 'I have to climb Mount Everest, again, tonight.' Oh, the theater is a scary place to be.

Coarse rice to eat, water to drink, my bended arm for a pillow - therein is happiness. Wealth and rank attained through immoral means are nothing but drifting clouds.

[Our system of education ]not designed to create critical thinkers.

Despair makes us serve evil as much as good.

I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man.

Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life.

Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.