"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof." - Bach, Richard in 'Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah' 1977

"My love does not, cannot make her happy. My love can only release in her the capacity to be happy." - Barnes, J.

"Relationships: we all got 'em, we all want 'em, what do we do with them?!" - Buffett, Jimmy

"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade." - Buscaglia, Leo

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'" - Fromm, Erich

"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations." - Gibran, Khalil

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)

"Men always want to be a woman's first love--women like to be a man's last romance." - Wilde, Oscar