“If you want to be loved, be lovable.”

We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.

He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.

Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.

Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Hurry to your goal together. That is full bliss when man and woman lie equally conquered.

Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.

I can live neither with you, nor without you.

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.

What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

When you think about it, we actors are kind of prostitutes. We get paid to feign attraction and love.

People need love. It’s the most powerful emotion in the world.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death

Love: I recognize the emotion for what it is, an irrational self-destructive impulse, which is disguised as joy.

Nothing better than celebrate your victories with the ones you love.

Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around.

I see my beauty in you.

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.