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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth, inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.

Caring is a powerful business advantage.

We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us.

The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.

I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!".

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.

You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.

Fair and softly goes far.

The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before all else.

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Error always addresses the passions and prejudices, truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.