If you care about your longevity and health, be a socially affiliated baboon who is better than high-ranking ones at walking away from provocations.

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.

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

Mountains clothed in snowRobed in white against blue skiesMirrored in the lake.

Christmas seems to say that paradise lost and longed for does not have to be paradise given up on.

One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

The simple truth is that the implementation of Obamacare has hurt Americans and their health care more than it has helped.

But the churchmen fain would kill their church, As the churches have kill'd their Christ.

Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

I'm not sure about my design work every time.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.