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.

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

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.

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

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.

Knowing leads to caring.

I could think of no better place to secretly murder someone than inside a fridge. Well, actually there were probably several better ones, but none came to mind at the time.

Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things human and divine conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.

The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.

Vampires are people too. They've got their own problems, they just drink blood.

Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.

There are no styles of karate-do, just varying interpretations of its principles.

If you find yourself getting nervous stop and relax for three full breaths. Then take one small step, then another. That is how people get to the top of Everest.

I like to travel and connect.

How do we not rue the many unchosen paths in life? A blessed lack of imagination. There are enough real glories along any path to swamp our meager ability to picture alternatives.