"Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one"

"The biggest coward is a man who awakens a woman’s love with no intention of loving her"

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage"

"Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting"

"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"He is not a lover who does not love forever"

"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there"

"I love to travel, but hate to arrive"

"Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop"