Severe initiations increase a member's liking for the group.

Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.

[Sexual] fantasies, like children, are most interesting to the people who have them.

Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.

Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.

No one seems to have learned, or can remember, the magic words that calm people when they are frightened or threatened: "I'm sorry; I didn't see you; are you all right?" The inability to speak these words, I observe, goes right along with a propensity for mindless insults.

Science is a form of arrogance control.