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.

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

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.

School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.

You could say I’m so manly I don’t even allow manly stereotypes to influence my actions

It is impossible to read this opening paragraph without an involuntary feeling of religious awe

Did you ever see a one eyed woman cry? You know the saddest thing about the woman, the tears don't come out just one eye.

It's hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.

Christianity takes this beating that I really don't understand and yet you can't say anything negative about the Muslims because that's horrible, you can't say anything negative about other faiths.

I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.

The best essays come from the moment in which people really need to work something out.

At every moment, step by step, one must confront what one is thinking and saying with what one is doing, what one is.

Spiritual blossoming simply means blossoming in life in all dimensions - being happy, at ease with yourself and with everybody around you.