We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.

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.

The view wasn't exactly breath-taking. Kind of boring actually. Unless, of course, you had a rare, strong appreciation for deserts, in which case it was downright mind blowing.

I think all chefs who pursue great flavor have good ethics.

The human being is like a light bulb. If a human being is super stressed, depressed and filled with negativity, this is what that human being radiates out into the world.

Nothing is to be presumed on, or despaired of.

Dad always told me that if you're going to work on something, it might as well be something you're proud of.

How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?

For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.

Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars!

The American Marines have it [pride], and benefit from it. They are tough, cocky, sure of themselves and their buddies. They can fight and they know it.

Love stories that are too simple don't deserve to have films made about them.