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.

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.

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 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.

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.

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

She mourned the history that the invisible intruder had erased, but not enough that she would spend a second more of her future feeling the emptiness.

Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.

Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.

I want to make sure everything has my 100%.

Word of mouth is the most effective means of communication.

Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records.