Assume that your worldview is not borne by the public. More than that: Do not assume that those who think differently are idiots. Before you distrust them, question your own assumptions.

News is to the mind what sugar is to the body.

Out of the ­10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life?

If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes.

It's okay to be envious - but only of the person you aspire to become.

Excel spreadsheets might as well be one of the most dangerous recent inventions.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean … or what we really think.

What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.

It starts with being unearthed. I like that word, unearthed, because we are being unearthed.

While the prosecution has said this is about the defendants lies, one worries that those lies already have been buried under too much discussion of technical issues. The jury may be lost already.

I had sold my soul for pleasure.

Introverts process information internally, and we don't like to express our thoughts until they are fully formed.

The English take their pleasures sadly, after the fashion of their country.

Great people create great acts of kindness.

I think the words you stop yourself from saying are the ones that will haunt you the longest.