"Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman." ― Victor Hugo Topic(s): Faith Tags: nature, pebble More From Victor Hugo "Men become accustomed to poison by degrees." "Many great actions are committed in small struggles." "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." More In Faith "Illegal immigration is crisis for our country. It is an open door for drugs, criminals, and potential terrorists to enter our country. It is straining our economy, adding costs to our judicial, healthcare, and education systems."― Timothy Murphy "I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four."― Jim Lehrer "If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished."― Swami Vivekananda