People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.

The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

People are happiest when they're trying to achieve goals that are difficult but not out of reach.

The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.

Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy

Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

Once you read a classic, you will start loving even the smell of the books.

College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

What troubles us much, is of less importance to what troubles us much that invokes our thought, heart, spirit and body to dare to a live distinctive footprint on earth

I never expected that this would be my life.

A Tax Loophole: A deduction that the other guy gets.

Even just seconds ahead is unknown; even just seconds after is open to infinite possibilities.

The best way to know God's will is to be familiar with the Bible.

Everyone, including skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views. That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are not exempt from self-delusion.

In my opinion, character is the most important determinant of a person's success, achievement and ability to handle adversity.

There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar.