“ Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment. ”

“ As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life. ”

“ A woman laughing is a woman conquered. ”

“ Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. ”

“ I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever. ”

“ Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. ”

“ What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce. ”

“ Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. ”

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

“ The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God. ”

“ The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. ”

“ Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. ”