The joy is not in experiencing a scarce commodity but in possessing it.

Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds.

We will use the actions of others to decide on proper behavior for ourselves, especially when we view those others as similar to ourselves

The obligation to receive reduces our ability to choose whom we wish to be indebted to and puts that power in the hands of others.

Presuasion is what you say immediately before you deliver your message that leverages your success tremendously.

What new psychology suggests, it's the factor that is top of consciousness at the moment before you make that economic decision that will win the day.

There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation.

By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect the many psychological influences on liking.

Pre-suasion is the practice of getting people sympathetic to your message before they experience it.

At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be able to solve this mystery at the end of class.'

Love is the stimulation for the creation. If there is no love, there is no humanity.

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.

If you think individual, that's how you're going to come off. I've always given 'team' a chance.

Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

You know, I use organic products, but I get [laser treatments]. It's what makes life interesting, finding the balance between cigarettes and tofu.

Talk to everybody with reverence. Listen to everybody with reverence. Say things with reverence. You will always be happy and graceful.

I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.

Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.

It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.