“Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.”

“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”

“Nothing is menial where there is love.”

“You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.”

“I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.”

“Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?”

“Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together”