Human inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into social, biological, and physical environments.

If you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.

New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.

To keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. The brain cannot do its job of protecting the body without contact with other people.

Unconscious decisions for action go on constantly inside the head.

We're worse off than Freud thought, because many actions proceed without our knowing anything about them.

Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.

Parish me no parishes.

Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.

Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.

If you're not falling, you're not training hard enough.

A leader may be the most knowledgeable person in the world, but if the players on his team cannot translate that knowledge into action, it means nothing.

The former oppressors do not feel liberated. On the contrary, they genuinely consider themselves to be oppressed.

Nature is bent on new beginning and death has not a chance of winning.

Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many, many, many people and vastly different careers.