In life, people tend to wait for good things to come to them. And by waiting, they miss out.

You have to build systems to protect against your lesser self.

Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby.

If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him.

It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self

Rapport equals trust plus comfort.

To get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her.

The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's what I learned about male-female relationships.

there are only so many ways to get rejected or ignored. It doesn't hurt at all anymore because why should someone who's a complete stranger have any control over your sense of selfworth?

One of the things I'd learned ... was how to take a compliment. Just say, "Thank you." It's the only response a confident person can make.

We're just fragile machines programmed with a false sense of our own importance. And every now and then the universe sends a reminder that we don't really matter to it.

They say the sky is the same everywhere. Travellers, the shipwrecked, exiles, and the dying draw comfort from the thought[.]

We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.

A few men’s fight for the survival is stronger than a nation’s fight for the wealth.

Be courageous! Never fear to take a chance.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

For me, to catch, to celebrate the reality and life and friends and everything around me the very moment it happens - that's what is, that's what I'm possessed by.

I could still do a suit, I just wouldn't have done that exact lapel situation.

Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery.

The next great step of mankind is to step into the nature of his own mind.

You cannot have a cake and eat it too. Either you eat it, or you have it.