That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

Heroism is the antidote to evil.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.

The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures, work demands or economic anxieties.

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.