Psychologists have found that we are more likely, in looking back at our lives, to remember high points and dramatic shifts in far greater proportion than ongoing stretches of happiness or misery.

While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.

Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.

Deceit and violence - these are the two forms of deliberate assault on human beings.

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.

Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles.

America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which is ravaging some of its communities today.

Sitting too long in front of a screen proves both physically and psychologically debilitating, no matter how innocuous or even beneficial the programs may be.

Ana, honey, you've always had a tendency to overanalyse everything. Go with your gut.

The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling withdisappointment to the ground

Partnership is the way. Dictatorial win-lose is so old-school.

My television fed me visions, but I never created my own until I became a reader.

I'm a bit of a P. T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.

I appreciate anything thoughtful.

Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies.

Whatever the style is, I want to have a sense that the writer is thinking, and really trying to get at something, and that there's a sense of discovery as the writing goes along.

I don't even like Greg Glassman. I don't have a cult like allegiance to the guy. I really don't like him. He's too hard to get on the phone and he doesn't drink my kind of scotch.

Without doubt I praise the wild excellence.