Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.

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.

All of us, as human beings, seek to be respected. Even those who do not respect others have a deep seated desire to be respected.

Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

The CIA’s resources should be focused on monitoring terrorists in caves – not polar bears on icebergs.

[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do.

I was good at art - always good at art.

Short stories can be rather stark and bare unless you put in the right details. Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

We don't talk about tennis. I figure she knows what she's doing. I mean, what am I going to tell her?

That faith which is required of us is then perfect when it produces in us a fiduciary assent to whatever the Gospel has revealed.