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.

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.

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.

We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do!

Life is about trying to find our ways back to our one shared soul. When we’re looking out at the stars, we’re looking into ourselves.

I have to be sure of myself - in a conditional way, always being open to the possibility that I'm wrong.

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.

Second base is anything but magic. If it's anything at all, it's speed, sureness with your hands and lots of hard work.

Captain Jack: Rose, you are worth fighting for. [Jack kisses Rose passionately] Captain Jack: Wish I'd never met you, Doctor, I was much better off as a coward. [Jack kisses the Doctor the same way]

Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art .

Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".

Sackcloth and kelp soup are not required, but the Buddhist reminder of the need to live lightly on the earth is a helpful guide to the daily habits and needs of us all.