To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

You make me want to be a better man.

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space.

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

The more one judges, the less one loves.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.

We are most alive when we're in love.

All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

In your life, my infinite dreams live.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard but must be felt with the heart.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.