It's time we learned the truth about stress. It's time we identified the thoughts that actually create our stress and learned to dismantle them one by one.

The truth is that stress doesn't come from your boss, your kids, your spouse, traffic jams, health challenges, or other circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about these circumstances.

Some people are so used to experiencing stress that they don't remember what life was like without it.

The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat directed against his values. Heroism requires value conflict.

Stress is the negative whirlwind of emotions that gets imposed on top of our stimulation and engagement.

A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.