Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.

We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them.

The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.

Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

Dating and hiring have a lot in common.

I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.

A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.

Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.

Innovation = Inspiration + Perspiration + Perseverance.

Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.

Ali's daughter is fighting and Joe Frazier's daughter is fighting as well.

There's no way to actually turn the rover off.

Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.