Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

Every evil starts with 15 volts.

Hate is only misdirected energy: it gets you nowhere.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

I think overall the majority of people who are practicing it as a subject are following the right line. For the aberration, don't blame yoga or the whole community of yogis

I eat pretty clean, but the training is tiring. When you're training two times a day it can be really draining, so I'd rather stick with the diet.

If you win all the time, it's not good for the coaches or the kids.

Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white.

Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.

I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.

God established the family as the foundation of civilization.

The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.