People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.

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.

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

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.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

And hope is but a dream of those that wake.

High altitude astronomy is a strange world of oxygen starvation, sleep deprivation and radiation sickness.

Laughter enlightens our hearts and lightens life’s burdens.

I knew that by this time tomorrow, I was going to be eternally grateful for falling down the stairs and knocking myself unconscious. Smartest dumbest thing I'd ever done.

A bad girl is a far more dangerous thing than a bad boy.

It's our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion.

You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.

It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.

I knit for Caps for Good - a charity that gives hats to Third World babies - while I watch movies with friends.