One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.

Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

Subliminal is about how we misinterpret our behavior because were unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.

Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.

A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.

Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.

We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are often only illusions.

One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite.

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.

If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.

Sometimes, certain of God's blessings arrive by shattering all the windows. (Brida)

Someone said DX over here? It was this dipshit with the cowboy hat over here.

The very inclusion of the right to keep and bear arms in the Bill of Rights shows that the framers of the Constitution considered it an individual right.

I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life.