A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

... no matter how great the differences are between men and women, the differences among members of the same sex are usually equally great if not greater.

Men have two basic needs. Neither of them, no matter what they say, is sex. They need love and they need work. And work takes priority over love. If a woman could know only one fact about men and work, it should be that work is the most seductive mistress most men ever have.

I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.

Sex and love are like tea and milk. They can be mixed or they can be taken straight. Each has certain distinctive characteristics, but when they are combined they form a unique substance.

Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more competent and talented and industrious.

Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.