There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god but who knows my god?

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it is true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you do not love something, then do not do it.

One is very crazy when in love.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace is not enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.