I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.

Women rescue men just as much as, if not more than, men rescue women.

Psychobabble attempts to redefine the entire English language just to make a correct statement incorrect. Psychology is the study of why someone would try to do this.

It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias

I find it a challenge to cooperate in a society where it's considered moral to critique a résumé yet immoral to critique morality.

Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.