If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.

But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be.

Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads.

We all seek out stress. We hate the wrong kinds of stress but when it's the right kind, we love it - we pay good money to be stressed by a scary movie, a roller coaster ride, a challenging puzzle.

What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder thing.

What happened in the milliseconds before a behavior to cause it? That's in the neurobiological realm.

Your false promises are dark enough to submerge even the sun.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination

Too much shine, can dull the soul

A strong marriage requires two people who choose to love each other even on those days when they struggle to like each other.

Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.

The foresight of financial experts was, as so often, a poor guide to the future.

God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors and blemishes. But He also sees our value.

The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.