Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.

Great thinkers often learn, to their surprise, that new ideas are less than welcome.

I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

We have to learn to live with uncertainty.

What you repeatedly do carries the clay to mold you into who you eventually become. Don’t despise any tiny minute of the day

Does my soul sufferWhen my body breaks downWhen I feel mortalWhen my body is weakDoes the soul rejoiceThe end is near

As usual I was working the graveyard shift—an irony I reveled in—at an emergency call center. What other shift would a vampire feel comfortable working?

How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?

Snape was a bully who loved the goodness he sensed in Lily without being able to emulate her. That was his tragedy.

Sin is the most expensive thing in the universe. Nothing else can cost so much.

It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart like acting did.

In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

Thus abide constantly with the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, so that the heart swallows the Lord and the Lord the heart, and the two become one.

Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.