To get a woman, you have to be willing to risk losing her.

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.

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.

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.

Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.

Things didn't quite work out like we wanted them too, but... we still have you, and you still have us.

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

If someone says, 'No, no, no, the earth is round!', they think this person is an extremist. That's what it's like for someone with my right-of-centre views working inside the BBC.

Your legs are not giving out. Your head is giving out. Keep going.

The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.

The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.

If clothes look like a couch or an ottoman or a love seat, you just wanna stay away from it.

If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing.

Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,"I have a complaint."