Love is always a surprise and you never get it right.

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

You lose a wallet or keys or something and you notice in a second, but your life can go missing and you don't even know it.

Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.

I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.

She knows what it's like to love someone who cannot love you back. Someone who needs you, holds you, yes, but someone who will never know that love is the knife in your heart.

Patience is the food of understanding.

the goal is to keep yourself moving, remember? don't linger. don't hover. you are not going to stay.

I am not a wishing well with legs. (Paraphrasing Babylon 5's Londo Mollari, repeately, when asked to perform hacking functions for strangers.)

Percy: You just hit the lord of the titans with a blue plastic hairbrush.

Words are a human way of trying to describe things. But they're much more of interference than they are a help in the world of enlightenment.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

In wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do

I've always got on very well with the French, perhaps because I'm very natural.

I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

Truth and fidelity are the pillars of the temple of the world; when these are broken, the fabric falls, and crushes all to pieces.