Little things please little minds.

He knows. I can see it in his eyes, he feels how much I love him still, and maybe he's always known.

Death, that reverse alchemy process, in which the gold of life is broken down into foul-smelling starting components.

men and women desperate enough to risk death to express their wishes.19

In Russia they put you in insane asylums if you disagree with the state: it's not so different here. Keep the natives quiet.

Here, those kids are called nerds and geeks and dorks. This may be the only country where people make fun of the smart kids. Now that's stupid. I only hope that the engineer who built the bridge I...

To be free of customs: "Custom clouds the true face of things."

To be free of family and familiar surroundings.

unspeakably poor, because she could give nothing and only received, with

the beauty of the creative gesture is wild, unwilling and painful.

You cannot understand England just by seeing its candidate. He told me. Unless you leave at least once, you also cannot understand the country we live in.

Even today, after so many years, I cannot determine where my pure negligence ended, and where my culpability began. Perhaps I will never know.

Just like in the 18th century when the French distinguished the Arab, Persian, and Indic attributes, in the Middle Ages these were associated with concepts of exuberant, refined, distinguished,...

They did nothing to us, they merely plunged us into absolute nothingness, because it is known that nothing exerts as much pressure on the human soul as nothingness...

"What peace can the eye find from the swift sky? \nO cupbearer, give me a cup to rest a moment. \nI told Wit these matters; he smiled and said: \nHard is the daily life, full of amazing troubles and a...

Sometimes, it takes us a while to appreciate something new, something that might change us for the better.

I guessed his name was Face of Horror. I wondered how long it had taken his mom to think of that. Bob? No. Sam? No. How about Face of Horror?

Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.

Sugar and caffeine. My willpower crumbled.

Iconoclast, the neuroeconomist Gregory Berns

Ever tried selling yourself to you? A favorable first impression is the greatest single factor in business or social success.

We all write our life stories as if we were novelists, McAdams believes, with beginnings, conflicts, turning points, and endings. And the way we characterize our past setbacks profoundly influences...

Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the...

And every day, Don wrestles with himself. Should he go back to his apartment and recharge over a quiet lunch, as he longs to do, or join his classmates?

difference has to do with how the two cultures define respect.

The parents of high-reactive children are exceedingly lucky, Belsky told me. The time and effort they invest will actually make a difference. Instead of seeing these kids as vulnerable to adversity,...

Why shouldn't quiet be strong? And what else can quiet do that we don't give it credit for?

A man has as many social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares. He generally shows a different side of himself to each of these different groups. - WILLIAM JAMES

One highly successful venture capitalist who is regularly pitched by young entrepreneurs told me how frustrated he is by his colleagues' failure to distinguish between good presentation skills and...

By the time I was old enough to figure out that I was simply introverted, it was a part of my being, the assumption that there is something inherently wrong with me. I wish I could find that little...