Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.

There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.

Nothing, ' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal practices or cite up-to-date studies.

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.

Although we presume that we act because of the way we feel, in fact we often feel because of the way we act.

Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.

Listen to all, believe few, count on some, but trust none.

Just as art is art regardless of the colors, a human being is so regardless of race.

We can imagine how to create and be creative on a beach in a cosmic sky. No grain of sand is merely just sandy

Tom Chaney would pay for this! I would not rest easy until that Louisiana cur was roasting and screaming in hell!

You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in any remarkable way would be ‘undemocratic’.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional

I have shaved my head. My flowing locks are now quite a bit shorter.

Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm any of us.

Give us grace to listen well.

Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.