Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.

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

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.

How beautiful to find a heart that loves you, without asking you for anything, but to be okay.

And God said, Love your enemy, & I obeyed Him & loved myself.

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still.

I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.

I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.