Charles Dickens

[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can’t pay, gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

A man in love is like a clipped coupon – it’s time to cash in!

You first.’ The only way love works.

If you love someone set them free. If they come back, they’re yours; if they don’t, they never were.

Love is the absence of judgment.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

Don’t forget me, don’t forget me. I wouldn’t leave you if you’d let me.

When a man is in love or in debt, someone else has the advantage.

True love does not leave you a choice.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

My demons are begging me to open up my mouth.

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

A happy love needs to be reciprocated.

Every heart has its own skeletons.