The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

When you love a man he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand and his outline recedes vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world the atmosphere the blue sky and the blue water.

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

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable trusted element in another person's life.

We must declare ourselves become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love but the emotion itself.