Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

Every evil starts with 15 volts.

Plans are fragile things, and life often dashes expectations to the ground.

Oh, yeah. You're the best, " I grinned back at him."Pumpkin, hello. Of course I am!

The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!

If the populace knew with what idiocy they were ruled, they would revolt.

Every time we had a raid, I'd get a boyfriend out of it.

Brown shoes don't make it.

Flowers, leaves, fruit, are the air-woven children of light.

I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.

Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis.

You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive.