His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner desire. Insofar as it is possible to divide people into categories, the surest criterion is the deep-seated desires that orient them to one or another lifelong activity. Every Frenchman is different. But all the actors the world over are similar.

She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.

nothing yet. I've been waiting." "for what?" she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him.

I have a strong will to love you for eternity.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!

Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.