A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.

Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

Subliminal is about how we misinterpret our behavior because were unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.

One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.

Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.

Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.

We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are often only illusions.

One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.

People can have the best of intentions when they tell their loved ones how they should be living their lives. But often times, when we are in struggle, we are seeking to be supported, not solved.

Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations.

Every day you grow stronger and the challenges become easier. Keep going.

It feels like someone is gripping my heart and twisting it. It feels like I can't breathe. I shut my eyes tightly against the memory that is threatening to surface. I can't br

The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

I've met a lot of pin-up girls, but I've never been able to pin one down

Coming out is the most political thing you can do

I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.