There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

Nature distributes her favors unequally.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

Life isn't always easy but so long as we have hope that we will find someone to help us through the darkness things will always get better. When we find that person, life suddenly explodes and darkness turns into a riot of colour. We're always looking for someone, what we need to remember is that someone is out there looking for us too.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!