Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of profits versus principles.

We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection of situational temptations. We invest human nature with God-like qualities, with moral and rational faculties that make us both just and wise. We simplify the complexity of human experience by erecting a seemingly impermeable boundary between Good and Evil.

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

There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.