If people would get in touch with their spirits, they would be able to heal, emotionally and physically.
Bad things happen when problems are protected by a force field of tediousness.
The long-term solution in preventing another famine in Somalia is to promote self-reliance.
Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxious - we get defensive and try to solve the problem rather than finding the truth in what the person is saying.
Irene Adler: [referring to Holmes' disguise] Eye patch... nice touch.
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
I think that the 'laws of nature' are also prone to evolve; I think they are more like habits than laws.
I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.
It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms.
Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise.
A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.
I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim.
I was born in Vienna on November 7, 1929, eleven years after the multiethnic Austro-Hungarian Empire fell apart following its defeat in World War I.
'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed.
This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous.
The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
Global political conditions make a direct American intervention difficult, but President Reagan's messianic and visceral attitude toward the Nicaraguan revolution could mean it will happen as an act of desperation.
One of the ultimate challenges of biology is to understand how the brain becomes consciously aware of perception, experience and emotion. But it is equally conceivable that the exchange would be useful for the beholders of art, for people who enjoy a...
