I'm a massive pessimist.

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we...

These 'lone wolves,' people like to call them, you've got to look at them not like a lone wolf but an individual operator who's been convinced in their head, brainwashed, whatever, that this is the...

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening.

I think that going on any reality show is not good for your mental health because you behave differently when you are being watched, and you constantly have an extra bit of awareness of what's going...

Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same...

One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than...

I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't think what makes a good race car driver is a fearless person. I think it's somebody that is comfortable...

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and...

When you strip hope from people, it leaves a void, and that void needs to be filled. And very likely, that void is going to be filled by an ideology... Hope and faith are so connected. Now, when...

As concerns the question of the psychological engine that drove Hitler, the conventional interpretation of lusting after power is, in final analysis, the refuge of lack of understanding.

Our unconsciousness is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.

Only so far as a man believes strongly mightily can he act cheerfully or do anything worth doing.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties came prepared to forgive neither party came prepared to be forgiven.

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

Thanks to Scoop, I've learned a lot about how the male mind works, and as a result I've been having nightmares for months.

A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom he is...

The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.

And the weird weird thing about this story of Angela's Ring was that it didn't even have a point to it, no happy ending, no lesson to be learnt. It was like one person's cry of pain, echoing out on...

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

You who understand what a human mind can be, how can you bear it? I don't have the hundredth part of your mind and there are days when I think I'll go mad. I can feel it. Or hear it. It's more like...

Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

Doubt was a giant - sized beast with heavy boots that pounded through the cities of the mind, sparking an occasional life only so Hope could rise again for a splendid recrushing. Doubt reveled in...

Perhaps there's an innate human emotion inside us all that when we are presented with something we don't understand, we immediately want to kill it.