The price we pay for our irresponsible explanatory urge is that we often spoil our most pleasant experiences by making good sense of them.

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.

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

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.

Find our way out, Greenie. Solve the buggin' Maze and find our way out.

While sleeping, we’re free to be what we really are, nothing more, nothing less.

With this film, 'Need For Speed, ' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.

I think that we live in a moment in time where people have a lot of information about a lot of people kind of instantly, but it's all sort of surface information and it doesn't really mean anything.

Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new!

I want to become a student. I want to read Chinese history and go on a dig.

Perhaps the greatest myth being purveyed, is that myths are just myths.

My husband and I are pretty good at leaving money alone until we need it for what we've saved it for.