The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.

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.

Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams, knives out, lights out, lights out, knives out!

A strong realization hits me.

If you're not afraid, how can you be really brave?

It’s a myth that an entrepreneur cannot work in a corporation. It’s all in the mindset.

Health and sicknesse surely are mens double enemies. [Health and sickness surely are men's double enemies.]

I think the good thing about my face is it has always been expressive. With Botox that goes - not what you want as an actress.

The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.

Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.

Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.

On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who's the last President to give you a balanced budget?