If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

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.

When men learn to glimpse the Universe through the eyes of the Spirit, all they see is Love

What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the Serpents offer and had said to him instead, "Let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be -- let me be a woman?

I stand secured in the Lord.

Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors.

... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.

It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.

The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together; and it is only in the last push that one or the other takes the lead.

It's a rare thing when you can read a script in one sitting and you haven't looked at the watch or you've gone to make a cup of tea.