Some people’s self-esteem was secretly improved when they discovered that their then-lovers had killed themselves over them.

A man cannot really be called (sexually) confident if he has never bought his woman a vibrator.

Some adults are so self-conscious that they are unable to look, for longer than two seconds, a child or even an animal in the eye.

Shyness is cute in children, but disgusting in adults.

We sometimes allow someone—because of their confidence and our uncertainty—to ‘correct’ us where we are right, and they are wrong.

Like fear, doubt greatly reduces the potency of our effort.

A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.

Some situations are a case of the blind leading the deaf.

The absence of doubt is not necessarily a sign of the presence of truth.