The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death.

No person loving or admiring himself is alone.

There are only two roads that lead to something like human happiness. They are marked by the words . . . love and achievement. . . . Inorder to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy. . . . The secret of human happiness is not inself-seeking but in self-forgetting.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all the others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth

Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.