Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

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

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

The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.

The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact.

Many parents have discovered, perhaps with some guilt, that they can read a story to a child while thinking of something else.

Freedom has a cost, which is borne by individuals who make bad choices, and by a society that feels obligated to help them.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it.

The often-used phrase “pay attention” is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail.

However, attention can be moved away from an unwanted focus, primarily by focusing intently on another target.

Every time you borrow money, you're robbing your future self.

Don’t be quick to get angry.

There are so many young women in film school right now, and it's just about foreign sales companies, domestic sales companies agreeing to finance films directed by and starring women.

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

I do not believe in things. I believe in relationships.

You don't really prepare for a kissing scene.

There really isn't anything that you could call 'bad' color. It all has to do with the amount of color you use and in what context it appears.

A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

I'm a baseball player. I'm also a guy who mows his lawn and plays with his dog.

This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity