The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact.

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.

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.

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.

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

When you are here, God is near.

You are a miracle, you are a light. You are not made of our weaknesses but of your strengths. You are a masterpiece made by The Master. Don't see yourself less!

To hear is to doubt, to see is to be deceived, but to feel is to believe.

The sad thing is that many of us come to Christ because we are sinners, and then spend the rest of our lives trying to pretend that we are not!

Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both!

And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important.

There is great variation in brain power all the way from Einstien on one hand to Sarah Palin on the other.

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.

The future is coming so fast, we can't possibly predict it; we can only learn to respond quickly.

I know he was desperate. That makes people do all kinds of crazy things.