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.

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.

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.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute.

There's nothing to took forward to any more if you don't have dreams, " he said. "Because dreams are goals and John might have run out of goals. So he died.

Freedom starts in the belief that we are capable of change.

What we believe as human nature in actuality is human habit.

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing.

Nothing is so common as unsuccessful men with talent. They lack only determination.

There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.