Every American worker should be able to save for retirement via payroll deductions.

When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite.

My mantra is if you want to help people accomplish some goal, make it easy.

There's no reason to think that markets always drive people to what's good for them.

People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick.

Recall that people like to do what most people think it is right to do; recall too that people like to do what most people actually do.

The lesson from behavioral economics is that people only save if it's automatic.

So, what's a nudge? A nudge is some small feature of the environment that attracts our attention and alters our behavior.

Investors must keep in mind that there's a difference between a good company and a good stock. After all, you can buy a good car but pay too much for it.

A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters.

There are cases when I can make myself better off by restricting my future choices and commit myself to a specific course of action.

Appeal with respect to elderly people as you would to the members of your own family.

[T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible.

Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden.

The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage their unique abilities.

It can be difficult to present mental illness in film without resorting to devices that, if not handled well, can seem heavy-handed or cliché.

Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.

Well, you know, in the fundamentalist milieu of the Afrikaners, there was a sense that they were a chosen people, that they were bringing civilization to the blacks.

0 summer friendship, whose flat-tering leaves shadowed us in our prosperity, With the least gust, drop off in the autumn of adversity.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.