Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

The best proof of love is trust.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.