We’ve evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.

Stress is not a state of mind... it's measurable and dangerous, and humans can't seem to find their off-switch.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart.

But if you get chronically, psychosocially stressed, you're going to compromise your health. So, essentially, we've evolved to be smart enough to make ourselves sick.

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be.

Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads.

We all seek out stress. We hate the wrong kinds of stress but when it's the right kind, we love it - we pay good money to be stressed by a scary movie, a roller coaster ride, a challenging puzzle.

What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder thing.

If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.

You‘ve been given the innate power to shape your life.

An ordinary woman who makes herself available to an extraordinary God can do amazing things for God.

While democracy must have its organization and controls its vital breath is individual liberty.

A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.

There is a certain time of life, when we value a good stomach more than the mind.

I'm not an actor, I'm a movie star!!!

It's about me, or people wouldn't be so anxious to keep me from knowing about it. The absence of information is information. ~ Ender

To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.

I do know that people tend to do their best work when they're challenged and stimulated by their peers.