I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

Academic success depends on research and publications.

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

If you want to change a person, you've got to change the situation.

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.

At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia...

The greatest gift that you can give to others and to yourself is time. Embrace the gift of time whether you give it or receive it.

We cannot measure, what it is we do not know to value.

One more drink and you're dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head.

Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.

A new study says that working fewer hours can slow global warming. So you know what that means? President Obama's economic policy is also his climate change policy.

Your game is only as good as your practice.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

We need a better strategy for poor people...because what we're doing isn't working.

The need for a pro-life point of view undergirds everything you do.

According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative.

When you play somebody, you pick up a lot of their gestures, his voice, the way he speaks, his body language. You don't often get that opportunity.