“Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.”

“And I sat there getting drunker and drunker and more in love and more in love.”

Donald Barthelme book Sixty Stories

“If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become a loved person, then your love is impotent, it is a misfortune.”

Karl Marx book Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

“Could you fall in love with her if she wasn't smarter than you? I mean, she may not be smarter than you. But isn't it important for you to think she is smarter than you in order to fall in love? Think now.”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

“It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.”

Katherine Paterson book Bridge to Terabithia

“I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes”

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor

“The smarter you are, the more you know, the less reason you have to trust or love or confide.”

Keri Hulme (1947) New Zealand writer

“Really surrender yourself. Really let yourself flow so that all this can pour into you, all this can help you. Because you know what satsang really does? It just makes us stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger and stronger. So if you want to get strong, here is your vitamins. You know? And you just got to take them. And take them as prescribed. And take the right vitamins and you’ll get strong. And you are getting stronger. So just let yourself flow in this beautiful, beautiful river of satsang, and just experience what’s really happening.”

Prem Rawat (1957) controversial spiritual leader

“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter. ”

John Gotti (1940–2002) American crime boss

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet