"Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder."

"Can I just say here how much I hate the word 'pamper'? While pretending to celebrate and indulge women, it actually implies that their bodies are so revolting that even their 'me time' must be dedicated to turning them into living dolls if potential suitors are to be prevented from running screaming in horror."

"The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst."

"When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?"

"Great leaders cultivate leaders, not merely followers. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell."

"I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties."

"Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can."