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

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

It is always possible to approach a goal by a detour.

In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

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.

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