In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?

There are two sources of error: Either you lack sufficient data, or you fail to take advantage of the data that you have.

The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work

Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations.

Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world

If you can't feel secure - and teach your children to feel secure - about 1-in-610,000 nightmare scenarios - the problem isn't the world. It's you.

Let us designate anarchism1 anarchism as you define it. Let us desiginate anarchism2 anarchism as I and the American Heritage College Dictionary define it.

Remind yourself that your mental & emotional health are important.

...think of the solution, not the problem. If your mind was filled only with thoughts of why you were going to lose, then you couldn't think of how to win.

Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die. Claudia: And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.

To the courtiers flushed with wine, life was pleasure, and pleasure life.

Liverpool wouldn't be the club it is today without Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley and the players who played there. When I first went there it was a typical Second Division ground, and look at it now!

I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me.

I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.

All creatures are merely veils under which God hides Himself and deals with us.

I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy.

After I won the Heisman Trophy, it just was OK, I’m supposed to go to the NFL and so that’s what I did. I didn’t really have any expectations and I didn’t really understand how things worked.