“What a gift! To control the uncontrollable. To be loved. To own love. To own a love.”

“You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all.”

“I simply love being me. You have no power to control my feelings because I own my own heart”

“We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.”

“Love should be treated like a business deal, but every business deal has its own terms and its own currency. And in love, the currency is virtue. You love people not for what you do for them or what they do for you. You love them for the values, the virtues, which they have achieved in their own character.”

“I loved this woman the way you love ... well, nothing," he said, a note of suprise in his voice. "You can’t compare that kind of love to anything, can you? It’s its own unique gift.”