"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 "Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest." "There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson." "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." More In Faith "In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith."― J. William Fulbright "I was never the ingenue, so hopefully that’ll make it easier to age and still work. I know a lot of actors who are really dissatisfied with where they’re at even though some of them are huge stars and I feel like, ‘Oh, my God, you’re at the top.’ Something interesting will come. It always does. I have faith."― Hope Davis "The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house."― Thomas Reid