I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal practices or cite up-to-date studies.

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.

Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.

There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.

Nothing, ' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

I'd always vaguely expected to outgrown my limitations.

Although we presume that we act because of the way we feel, in fact we often feel because of the way we act.

Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return.

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.

This-the immediate everyday and present experience-is IT the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe.

Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

Race is a constant factor in American life. Yet reacting to every incident,real or imagined, is crippling, tiring, and ultimately counterproductive.

Nothing good happens when you jump in the air.

I knew exactly what I was doing. You can't accidentally take a whole bottle of pills.

Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.

The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.

Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.