The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.

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.

An idea of awakening is not awakening. It’s simply an idea. It’s not the real thing. The real thing happens in our lives.

This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

I hated the distance between us. It left me unsettled, unbalanced. Like the good parts of myself were fading.

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.

A lie told well is just as good as the truth.

If you believe in light, you'll be in light, you don't have to face darkness.

There cannot be many people who can go through life without regretting sooner or later a lack of knowledge about horses.

The world you perceive is made of consciousness; what you call matter is consciousness itself.

Good values are easier caught than taught.