The human mind is not a terribly logical or consistent place.

The human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That doesn't make them strong or weak people, or good or bad people. It just makes them people.

Laugh whenever you can. Keeps you from killing yourself when things are bad. That and vodka.

Every soul is special. They’re all beautiful. They’re all far more significant than anyone on this rock realizes. I think when people are at their best, they’re acting in accordance with their soul. The ones who have gone bad don’t have bad souls. They’ve just given up on keeping in touch with them.

Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.

There's definitely been a shift in psychology toward buying equities instead of selling them. People have decided that even though it's going to be a slow recovery, it's better to be in stocks than in bonds.