"Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are."

"War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."

"'Men have forgotten this truth,' said the fox. 'But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.'"

"I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin."

"The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance."

"Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment."

"Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it."

"It is a quiet truth that love is the bridge that unites two souls across the chasms of mortal solitude — an essential principle for the reflective life."