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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The creative mind seeks chance and accident while everyone else seeks control and order. Rod Judkins ‘Change Your Mind

Believe in something, and let that something be yourself.

Chocolate cured just about everything, but being a crocodile's chew-toy was on a whole other level.

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

In the moment of reading, the writer comes up to the surface and the reader comes up to the surface and they kiss, like two fish. That actually does happen.

The building of a just society means overcoming every obstacle to the creation of authentic peace.

We cannot progress as a society, as a people, if we lack compassion.

If you're kept off the debates, you can't reach more two percent of people even if you campaign every state and fill the big conventions like Madison Square Garden.

The ego is like a kid in the basement: It's best to keep him busy.