"We sometimes allow someone—because of their confidence and our uncertainty—to ‘correct’ us where we are right, and they are wrong."

"If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money."

"Completely different impressions of someone can each be created by a selection of facts, or even a single fact, from the very same collection of facts about them."

"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."

"Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to."

"One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers."

"When it comes to their love lives, some people do not really have high standards; they merely have low sex drive."

"The smiles of the unhappiest are often the widest."

"The very same person can, at the very same time, seem at peace to some people, and depressed or even suicidal to some."

"Who we are usually depends on who is—or who we think is—looking at us."