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.

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.

Feelings are something you have

Statesmen are grocers, ambitious clowns.

If you hate what you get for Christmas, try to focus on the person who gave the gift to you, not what came in the box.

Great men never require experience.

As long as you're living right, then you don't have to worry about what people see.

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

I feel like I carry myself in a more manly way. I don't carry myself as a boy.

The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't.

At no time will we be more Christlike than when we are a friend.

Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.