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

Despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, I have not been able to answer... the great question that has never been answered: what does a woman want?

If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.

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

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

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

The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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

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

I learn to love it more and more.

Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Say as you think and speak it from your souls.

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

I have seen only You, I have admired only You, I desire only You

To fear love is to fear life, and those whose fear life are already three parts dead...

Never pretend to a love which you don't actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

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