Although we presume that we act because of the way we feel, in fact we often feel because of the way we act.

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.

Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.

There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.

Nothing, ' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal practices or cite up-to-date studies.

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.

Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.

The photographer will never replace the painter; one is a man, the other a machine. Let us compare them no longer. (1848)

Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories.

It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.

I've always been fairly reserved and laid-back.

Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion.

The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication-- Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it less true.