"Let us leave to the brain what..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.”

“We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness. The supreme happiness in life is the assurance of being loved; of being loved for oneself, even in spite of oneself; and this assurance the blind man possesses. In his affliction, to be served is to be caressed. Does he lack anything? no. Possessing love he is not deprived of light. A love, moreover, that is wholly pure. There can be no blindness where there is this certainty.”

“Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents; in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight; and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.”

“Genius is the ability to hold one's vision steady until it becomes reality”

“When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.”

“There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.”

“We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.”

“Give children toys that are powered by their imagination, not by batteries.”

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”