Eros will have naked bodies Friendship naked personalities.

To love at all is to be vulnerable.

The key, of course, is loving the churchless for who they are rather than for what they can offer our church.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life- to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories ...

The advantage of being lovers is that we have to work hard at our relationship, because everything conspires to drive us apart. Our decision to be together has to be renewed again and again; that keeps us on our toes.

Affection must be cultivated, Camilo; it has to be watered and tended like a plant, but we'd let ours dry up.

My maternal aunts and uncles, the Barros, were twelve rather eccentric brothers and sisters, though none was hopelessly mad.

A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.

Love your friend with his fault.

Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.

Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear.