I am halfway through Hillary Clinton's latest called "Living History"... pretty lighthearted on the scale... unlike David Hick's autobiography... I had to skip a couple of hundred pages in the middle...

67% of all shoppers intend to return home with the item they are shopping for, but that only 24% actually do so.

Men are private. This I have learned. They are whole continents of privacy

Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike.

What people think of you is only what they think of themselves. They look at you and see the maladies, the faults they've been carrying within themselves for the longest time. And they identified each...

Imagination is by definition, a complex system.

It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that...

Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling.

The insanity of shameful desires!

... you couldn't ask a person to remain supportive through any crisis. If a man's wife were suddenly afflicted with a mental illness, it would be a sin for him to leave her, but a forgivable one. To...

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...

Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.

Trust is a gossamer thread, and it takes only a breath of suspicion to break it.

Trust is tough since it involves that quixotic mix of integrity, vulnerability, and intimacy. But trust anyway.

What we learn in meditation, we can apply to all other realms of our lives.

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.

It's an illness, she said, although she made the words sound like it's uh nillness. Nillness, thought Strike, for a second distracted. Sometimes illness turned slowly to nillness, as was happening to...

Do not give much of your fears to the knife that cuts to bring out blood. Instead, fear the unseen knife that cuts deeper than the knife you see! The unseen knife that inflicts pain in the heart and...

Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged {or intense} exposure of one mind to another.

There is more to hear in what is not said.

What people value in their books - and thus what they count as literature - really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

There are two reasons why we don't trust people, First, we don't know them. Second, we know them.

The creative mind plays with the object it loves.

Traditional stoicism, indifference to pleasure or pain, is a form of imposing conscience so as to block more immediate desires. The problem is that it eventually collapses on itself because natural...

Mourning was really for the living.

It came to my house. It sat on my shoulders. Your shadow is yours. I told it so. I said it was yours. I have carried it with me too long. I give it back.

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

Nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to follow the path that leads to himself.

Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being without any conflicts, and have assumed that the sufferings of adults are the results of the burdens...

At its most basic, the allure of fundamentalism, whether religious or ideological, liberal or conservative, is that it provides an appealing order to things that are actually disorderly.