The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.

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 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.

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.

He never treated her as a wife. He wooed her over and over again, with presents, flowers, new pleasures.

Everybody loves comfort, but that is an illusion my friends.

Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.

There's estrogen running through my veins!

Funds raised create hope for kids with cancer. Research is our top priority for discovering a cure.

I believe in free will.

I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.