Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; read more

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the read more

Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.

Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even their gigantic read more

Women love men for their defects; if men have enough of them, women will forgive them anything, even their gigantic intellects.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s read more

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and read more

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

I cannot love as I have loved,
And yet I know not why;
It is the one read more

I cannot love as I have loved,
And yet I know not why;
It is the one great woe of life
To feel all feeling die.

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why read more

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

If you judge people you have no time to love them.