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Busy bees chased the bloom chaste Though they crawled on her clothes her petals unfolded and those held close still ever faithful to the sun is the everpure rose Whether her hue is violet or rose Whether she grows in freedom or rows ever to God in waves arose the love perfume from the heart of the rose.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give.

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Mortal love is when sensuality is satisfied. True love is when love is sacrificed.

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty, inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

The uncommitted life isn't worth living.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

I don't understand you. You don't understand me. What else do we have in common?

The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!.

A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness, it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New England, and multiple divorce, which looks to the European like serial polygamy, is the moral solution to the problem of the itch. Love comes into it too, of course, but in Europe we tend to see marital love as an eternity which encompasses hate and also indifference: when we promise to love we really mean that we promise to honor a contract. Americans, seeming to take marriage with not enough seriousness, are really taking love and sex with too much.