Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

How important is excitement to happiness? The key is to get excited about the mundane-- not just extraordinary things

Badmouthing your ex-spouse rips the child apart

Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate.

Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child

The easily embarrassed doesn't learn

There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.