We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother.

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds that happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys.

The flowering of love is meditation.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

For all eternity, I forgive you and you forgive me.

If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.

The heart was made to be broken.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Love is a serious mental disease.

Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I'd never even thought about killing myself.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.