"Gifts of the heart can't be claimed..." - Quote by Nicholas Sparks

“It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.”

“The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy.”

“I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.”

“You must therefore love me, myself, and not my circumstances, if we are to be real friends.”

“As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend.”

“love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.”

“Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.”

“The most important thing in the world is that you make yourself a loving person, because this is what you will be giving away.”

“There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.”