You can tell a lot about what a man lacks by watching what he is cynical about, and many of us are cynical about love.

you have to be very careful when you give to others that you don't tell them how great you are rather than how much you value them.

If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained.

Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn out the same

It can be much harder to be on the receiving end of a transaction than to be the one who gets to give. In fact, being given to can mean being taken from. There is a very strong connection between pride and giving, and those who do the giving get to feel that they are worthy, while those who are given to often feel that they are not.

The best kind of men have a certainty in themselves that isn't done in when countered by a certainty in their women, and they are much adored.

Men who take advantage of one woman take advantage of them all.