Debriefing-style counseling after a trauma often aggravates a victim's stress-related symptoms, for example, and 4 in 10 bereaved people do better without grief therapy.

Temperamentally anxious people can have a hard time staying motivated, period, because their intense focus on their worries distracts them from their goals.

this observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: "Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization.

Fear is the will's little baby. It arises with the possibility you will lose what you desire.

You can only push me so far little slakax, and then I will do what has to be done, with or without your permission.

When the wound is fresh it hurts, more so when you are reminded to the hurt time and again

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication sympathy and service.

After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.

You know, exams are like war -- the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says poor mind, and hopefully tosses up another distraction.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

The public want honesty from their politicians. Not showy gimmicks.

Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all just to make some easy money quick.