If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry."

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.

This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

We're generally overconfident in our opinions and our impressions and judgments.

Music is feelings in search of words.

They want to see their expectation... Entertainment has nothing to do reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

I have a plan, and I’m following it. I can focus on doing what is within my control, and I don’t need to be afraid of the results.

To focus energy on the less important things in life, hinder creating a solution to solve those problems that are of the most importance.

Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you think he would have avoided a nuclear war?

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

The key to branding, especially for smaller firms, is to focus on a limited number of issue areas and develop superb expertise in those areas.

Love emerges at the point of a lacking word, and one offers one's being to fill the lack.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.