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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily, that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.

O you much partial gods! Why gave ye men affections, and not power To govern them?

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.

The love received is the love that is saved.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person -- they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped, by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou, encouraged, they perfume life, discouraged, they poison it.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

The pursuit of truth will set you free, even if you never catch up with it.

The greater the truth the greater the libel.

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.-.