It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

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.

Stay committed and dedicated to your goals.

don't just listen to people crying, hear the reasons why they cry

In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.

I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

I want to be the bridge to the next generation.

If the spiritual universe and the way to it were shown, No one would remain in this world for a single moment.

A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.

I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.