Most things that couples disagree upon aren't worth more than a day's combat.

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.

Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life.

My light must shine, so that the darkness will disappear.

There are moments in life. And, yes, still moments in death.

You are no more exempt from time's inexorable passing than Macbeth. Whether time is your friend or foe depends on how you use it

I'm sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.

Among some of the youngsters, I think reality TV has installed that culture into them and inspired a few of them into wanting to be 'TV celebrities.

I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work.

That person I was when I was a lot younger is not who I am today.

Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.

We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.