Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.