So you're giving up? That's it? Okay, okay. We'll leave you alone, Quasimodo. We just thought, maybe you're made up of something much stronger.

His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.

Phoebus de Chateaupers likewise came to a 'tragic end': he married.

a mother who loses her child can no longer believe in God

Many people in Paris are quite content to look on at others, and there are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

There is no greater thing you can do with your life and your work than follow your passions – in a way that serves the world and you.

The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrant. It is its natural manure.

To connect is to dissolve the imaginary pyramids of artificial privilege.

You can't measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.

To have to hear a woman's voice, and start to make a choice just based on that, is difficult.

After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.

In some organizations, it is easy to say mistakes are okay when in truth it is a zero-defect organization. You will be remembered more for your mistakes than your successes in those organizations.

Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.