The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age

People always fall in love with the most perfect aspects of each other’s personalities. Who wouldn’t? Anybody can love the most wonderful parts of another person. But that’s not the clever trick. The really clever trick is this: Can you accept the flaws? Can you look at your partner’s faults honestly and say, ‘I can work around that. I can make something out of it.’? Because the good stuff is always going to be there, and it’s always going to pretty and sparkly, but the crap underneath can ruin you.