“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”

“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”

“Love is a pearl of purest hue,
But stormy waves are round it;
And dearly may a woman rue,
The hour that she found it.”

“If there is love enough, then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.”

“In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.”

“When you ask God for a gift,
Be thankful if he sends,
Not diamonds, pearls or riches,
but the love of real true friends.”

“You no longer need other people in your life once you have found your true love.”

“This love was big enough for the both of us.
This love of yours was big enough to be frightened of.
It's deep and dark, like the water was,
The day I learned to swim.”

“I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.”

“I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.”