"What is fright by night is curiosity..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“A poet is a world enclosed in a man.”

“A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.”

“A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.”

“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.”

“Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.”

“People don't stand up and protect their dreams because they get spoofed in a way.”

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiousity has its own reason for existing.”

“There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on. Without this passion there would be neither mathematics nor natural science.”

“Of course you will insist on modesty in the children, and respect to their teachers, but if the boy stops you in your speech, cries out that you are wrong and sets you right, hug him!”