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.

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.

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

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.

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

I have a new nickname for Dottie. She's now the Crazy Whisperer.

The same undisciplined government spending and social engineering that has undermined our economy over the past 30 years has also been tearing at the social fabric of this land.

I think it reminds me of my childhood, my father, .. I think people have the same reaction. It reminds you of what it was like to be a kid, where everything is carefree and fun.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason.

I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.

The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn't the family.

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

Let us show great humility towards the peoples we wish to help, for we have very little to teach them.

But sometimes imperfect tools lead us toward perfect ends.