My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you.

My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.

Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.