"The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do."

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."

"Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly."

"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two."

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

"Love is metaphysical gravity."

"Love is a game that two can play and both win."

"Where there is love there is life."

"For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul."