"Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger,..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“The thorny pointOf bare distress hath ta'en from me the showOf smooth civility; yet am I inland bredAnd know some nurture.”

“As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).”

“O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, leave not the mansion so long tenantless; lest, growing ruinous, the building fall and leave no memory of what it was!”

“To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.”

“When you get to my age, you’ll measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you. That’s the ultimate test of how you’ve lived your life.”

“Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?”

“You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.”

“Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?”

“A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.”