Don't be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don't mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That's not power. That's just corruption.

There's a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

Men and women aren't the same. And they won't be the same. That doesn't mean that they can't be treated fairly.

We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out.

The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.

The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood.

When you start to realise how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.