When we think of nonverbals, we think of how we judge others. … We tend to forget, though, the other audience that's influenced by our nonverbals: ourselves.

Don't fake it till you make it. Fake it till you become it.

Our bodies change our minds and our minds can change our behavior and our behavior can change our outcomes.

Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel.

Your body language shapes who you are

Tiny tweaks can lead to big changes.

Our nonverbals govern how other people think and feel about us.

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.

All changes have their melancholy

Happiness is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

But it's a big ocean. It's an even bigger world. And maybe we've gotten as close as we're supposed to get.

Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

Think of words as instruments characterized by their use, and then think of the use of a hammer, the use of a chisel, the use of a square, of a glue pot, and of the glue.

For years, we in publishing have been hearing from Catholic readers that they really yearn for Catholic fiction.

I'll watch any show on the History Channel.

Comedians are thinkers. The best ones are akin to philosophers, in my opinion.