What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia's useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.

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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

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You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

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Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.

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Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

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Happiness is a decision and so as Love. If you decide to be happy then you're happy. If you decide to love then you love. ― Ann Marie Aguilar

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If you can change your mind, you can change your life

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I love treason but hate a traitor.

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I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

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One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.

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