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.

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

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.

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

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.'

I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.

Oh hell." He gasped, his back arching, his balls drawing up painfully tight. "Don't make me come too quickly.

I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no death the way we understood it. The body dies, but not the soul.

Life doesn't stop with football.

After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion.

Make your move BEFORE you are ready!

The Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on those who produce.

Messi and the Brazilian come up to Rafinha and say “you're one of us now kid”