Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido.

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.

Alice is fictional. This isn't.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

Murphy's golden rule: Whoever has the gold, makes the rules.

My overall recommendation: for decades corporate policy manuals and HR departments have told people they are responsible for their own careers. It's about time people really heeded those warnings.

The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society. ...What am I doing to shape the values of the society?

That's what I like to do: bring out the best in people.

I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and I felt this extra beat to life.

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

Donkey Kong Country proves that players will put up with mediocre gameplay as long as the art is good.

We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out is our own ignorance and folly.