Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.

The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

People are happiest when they're trying to achieve goals that are difficult but not out of reach.

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.

The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.

Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy

Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.

People think that other international languages are smarter and more business wise. But they have to understand that we have to preserve our culture.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

[N]o country can squander itself to prosperity on the ruin of its taxpayers.

If you are BIG ENOUGH for your dream, your dream isn't BIG ENOUGH for God.

We will all wake up semi-angels, If we wake at all.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

I have a fantasy that might be fun. Why don't we try it?

Soil, not oil, holds the future for humanity.

Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.