The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.

If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but it lasts only for hours or days. There is no evidence it changes adult problems.

There are lots of rats. It's a dirty little secret at the Delacorte Theatre.

Positive thinking is the notion that if you think good thoughts, things will work out well. Optimism is the feeling of thinking things will be well and be hopeful.

I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to do.

Oh lissome lass! Don’t try to tempt me by barring all, because the barren land in which I live, all community members, move bare chested, while subsisting on bare necessities, thus spake African tribal.