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

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

People often say that stress is a motivator. What we're referring to when we say this is really better described as stimulation and engagement.

The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.

Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations.

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.