Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.

Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

Subliminal is about how we misinterpret our behavior because were unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.

One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.

Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.

Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.

We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are often only illusions.

One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.

Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.

Short guys with attitudes always just kind of made me laugh, like small, yippy dogs.

Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human.

Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that wood.

To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal.

A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

Formatting is no substitute for writing.

A cluttered refrigerator door is to a growing family what a wet nose is to a healthy dog.

You cannot predict the future.

There's a snake lurking in the grass.