Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere.

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.

Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

You should actually be fighting to have a time of solitude because through it, you can make yourself great.

The heart's the trouble. It knows the monster but remembers the love.

Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.

Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.

Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.

You ain't got to change the whole world. You just alter it a little bit and you redefine it into something beautiful.

One time I stayed at a haunted motel. When I checked into my room, there was a sheet on the floor, and I thought it was a ghost that had passed out, so I kicked it.

I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

We need to stop arguing about Christ and start living like Christ.