Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.

A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.

Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.

Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.

Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.

A world without love is a deadly place.

Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry.

We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'

I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.

Doubt births negative confessions

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.

Game, set, match equals tennis. Set, match, run equals arson.

You are a ghost, Andi," she says. "Almost gone." I look at her. I want to say something but I can't get the words out. She squeezes my hands. "Come back to us," she says. And she's gone.

When your team questions your competence, your ability to influence is shot.

Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.

We can choose our friends, but we can't choose our neighbors.

The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere.

My brother is my best friend and nothing is stronger than family.