“No one, but no one, ever behaves "well" in bed unless they love or are loved — two conditions seldom fulfilled.”

“Today I will speak about love. What is love? How can one get love? Why should one get it? There are two kinds of love. One is the worldly connection. The other is attained through Knowledge. In this human body exists the love we have to discover. You should love one another and behave lovingly because when love comes, everything comes. You should speak to one another with love and humility. Love is the essence.”

“It was almost as if there were no peace unless one could fight well, kill well (if always with honor), love well and love many. … It was as if the message in the labyrinth of the genes would insist that violence was locked with creativity, and adventure was the secret of love.”

“Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses.”

“Ah, cruel Love! What is the reason why
You seldom make our longings correspond?
How is it, traitor, you rejoice to spy
Two hearts discordant, one repelled, one fond?”

“When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.”

“That was perhaps the only woman I have ever loved — no — that I ever should have loved. Ah, well! who can tell? Circumstances rule one. And then — and then — all passes.”

“Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.”

“True love grows in a mutually happy relationship and not the fulfillment of one party's happiness alone. Love that does not work like that is not real love.”

“Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.”