The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.

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.

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.

Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

Now you’re listening to Swedish ?” I asked her. “He thinks I’m the Compass because every time I see ticktocks, I happen to be there!

All men have life, but only few men know its value.

People forget that track and field is one of the hardest sports because we compete against all the world. There are many sports when you are up against only 15 or 20 countries.

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

If you have two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.

God's revelation is in the gospel not only reveals who He is, but it also reveals who we are.

It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.

The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.

Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.

One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing the book. It's why you create characters: so you can argue with yourself.