Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

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.

We can’t always control what happens in our lives- things will go well, things will go poorly-but what we can control is our response to those events.

Worry is a form of fear.

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

The Farrelly brothers make movies the way you imagine a movie set would be when you're a kid - fun all the time.

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive.

What our children need more than to learn to read and write and add and subtract is to know Jesus Christ.

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.