Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.

If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.

I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.