When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah, our earliest forebears evolved a taste for important...

Some people never learn, no matter how much their heads hurt in the morning.

It's not the intensity of pain, but the level of stupidity that makes you do things you regret.

Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.

I understand that you are under a lot of pressure and that it's hard being a bride. That is all well and good. But it does not, ever, entitle you to be rude, selfish, uncaring, and generally obnoxious...

Being like them doesn't help them. Being like them just encourages them to continue being the way they are.

We talk what we think but do what we believe.

I read one study that indicated when a couple has been together for approximately three hundred hours, even most of those who are trying to be moral will do things they didn't intend originally. They...

Hard to trust honesty of inconsistent person.

No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.

Children are like clay in the hands of teachers. Like a sculptor we can chisel and carve their personalities with our behavior.

Your goodness must have some edge to it - - else it is none.

Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.

if you tease a dog, it bites.

So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear...

It turned out that the watchdogs could be trained, particularly if you only told them to do things they were going to do anyway. «Come, Alvin. Good boy. Now, poop. Excellent.»

The best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour

Habits are the invisible architecture of daily life. We repeat about 40 percent of our behavior almost daily, so our habits shape our existence, and our future. If we change our habits, we change our...

A cat understands how to be pleasant in the morning. He doesn't talk.

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

what sinks of iniquity these little villages can be

But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their bodies to adapt, because now their...