The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.

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.

Now see, if it were me, I wouldn’t have led with that. I would’ve gone with something like ‘G’day’ or ‘Wow, aren’t you a little hottie?

Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.

The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.

The eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, it transforms everything.

The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

Tommy grabs my waist and swings me around in a circle. I drag my feet because i am opposed to people touching me when I'm not expecting it. Also because it will take more than dancing to cheer me up.

Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to Chastity.

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.