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.

There is need of variety in sex, but not in love.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

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

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

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

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