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.

The world would be a better place if even a fraction of us became the kinds of people we have deceived others into believing we are.

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed.

We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them.

To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging; men buy fast cars.

Eating a salad (in public) is an overweight person’s attempt to appear in control.

Culture is a symbolic veil with which we hide our animal nature from ourselves … and other animals.