That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground

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.

Before you were conceived, I wanted you. Before you were born, I loved you. Before you were an hour, I would die for you. This is the miracle of love.

I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

I have a vamp body for you," Andrea said. "It's in the freezer." I gave her a nice smile. "You shouldn't have.

The function of artists is "the mythologization of the world."

There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

I've managed to create intimacy with people I know, and people that I don't know. The longer things stay inside of us, the more we think they are black or tainted, but they're really not.

I so never went through a bad-girl period.

Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.

I would have loved to play against Bill Russell. He was such a force.