I get to be the nosiest friend or acquaintance that anyone has because it's - my job is to ask you about your dating life all the time.

I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.

Your goal in an online dating profile and in your first message to somebody is to strike up a conversation.

We sold OkCupid to Match in January of 2011. In September of 2012, I became CEO of all of Match, which is the operating segment of IAC that contains all of the dating properties.

We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.

My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.

Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.

In dating, the question is how many Tinder knockoffs are we going to have, and are any of them going to take off?

Life isn't fair. It's true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely levels the playing field, but learning to rise above it is the ultimate reward.

One day of praying and six days of fun, the odds against going to heaven are six to one.

If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.

Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook.

My good friend, the poet Kofi Natambu, once said, "Contradiction is how we operate."

I like Hitler, jolly jolly Hitler.

One of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans.

The circumstances of our lives actually matter less to our happiness than the sense of control we feel over our lives.

The Buddha said that samsara by its nature is painful. He didn't say it was a joyride.

Everybody needs encouragement, even when things are going well.