“After seeing a movie that dramatizes nuclear war, they worried more about nuclear war; indeed, they felt that it was more likely to happen. The sheer volatility of people's judgement of the odds--t...”

“People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrar...”

“The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.”

“foodstuffs absolved of the obligation to provide vitamins and minerals cavorted with reckless abandon.”

“When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice," Amos liked to say. "Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.”

“On Wall Street, the lawyers play the same role as medics in war: They come in after the shooting is over to clean up the mess.”

“Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, or connect us to, nature. For our health and happiness, we must critically evaluate our labels and...”

“Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to their friends and confidants-and certainly to their e...”

“Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.”

“You're not to achieve anything, on the contrary you are to drop whatever you have accumulated over ages and its difficult mind you, not that its part of you, but YOU have owned this mental clutter ...”

“The unique stigma of PTSD. The stigma of PTSD remains one of the most formidable barriers to effective care.”