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

We all enjoy pushing ourselves to accomplish our objectives. But we don't need stress to get there.

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

For the first time in history, the rational and the good are fully armed in the battle against evil. Here we finally find the answer to our paradox; now we can understand the nature of the social power held by evil. Ultimately, the evil, the irrational, truly has no power. The evil men’s control of morality is transient; it lives on borrowed time made possible only by the errors of the good. In time, as more honest men grasp the truth, evil’s stranglehold will be easily broken.

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

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

During the financial crisis, I worked with hundreds of executives who struggled as a result of their thoughts about job security. When their beliefs changed, so did their emotional experience - and they were then able to focus on the task at hand more effectively.