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.

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.

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

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.

A woman, desires to hear nice words from a man who can praise her beauty.

Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice.

Can I view thee panting, lying On thy stomach, without sighing; Can I unmoved see thee dying On a log Expiring frog!

People do not like being lied to, and they do not like having their rights violated. So as soon as [officials] stop making arguments, you see support for me starts to rise.

I really think that to a lot of people hair is everything. Bad hair takes over everything, it really does. I think if somebody has bad hair it doesn't matter what else is happening.

You want a love story too? There's none to be had.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

I'm lucky because I intentionally keep my overhead low, and so I can say, "No, thank you."

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree.

The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it.