Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.

There is need of variety in sex, but not in love.

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

Romance fails us and so do friendships, but the relationship of parent and child, less noisy than all others, remains indelible and indestructible, the strongest relationship on earth.

No person loving or admiring himself is alone.

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.