"At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't worry unduly about whether they'll be found wanting, they just find too much socializing exhausting and would prefer either to be alone or in the company of a select few people."

"More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes."

"The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves."

"There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio."

"Wisdom principle 15 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 63."

"A life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Wisdom principle 94 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 76."

"Wisdom principle 22 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 2."