Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

We love the things we love for what they are.

Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

The flowering of love is meditation.

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I'

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

When you love you should not say, God is in my heart, but rather, I am in the heart of God. and think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.

A woman should soften but not weaken a man.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

Jesus said love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.