Because of ignorance, we often attribute to good genes—and therefore good luck—fruits of things such as exercise, reading, meditation, and fasting.

It is through the child’s eyes and ears, not genes, that he or she gets, from his or her parents, things such as humility and intolerance.

Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.

Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.

In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.

Sex hormones are so powerful that they often leave a man sexually excited by a fully dressed woman whose race he deems inferior to his, or even subhuman.

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.

In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.

The will to live is as intense in a weed as it is in a human.