Life should be built on the conservation of energy.
We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.
There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each other for some reason, that mechanism could get triggered again. You can literally fall in love again.
In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and ignore other subtleties, like if your lipstick is faded.
Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.
Romantic love is not an emotion. . . . It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.
Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young. . . This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live.
I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.
I think that the resistance against Darwin is not just the difficulty of seeing the power of a spectacularly beautiful explanation: it is the fear of realizing the extraordinary power that such an explanation has in shattering rests of old world views.
I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.
We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter.