The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.