- Heroism, the concept of heroes and Martin Luther King
- One-upmanship, people treating conversations as competitions
- The experience of poverty and deprivation versus entitlement
- The art of loving; the dynamic of romantic relationships, marriage, deception, mental and spiritual needs, control vs love, real love vs Hollywood image of love, being judgmental
- The life of Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm