We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.

People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them with excessive confidence

We are the sum total of our experiences.

For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, “Can I believe this?”, but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, “Must I believe this?

What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe

When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.

For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, "Can I believe this?", but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, "Must I believe this?

We may be particularly inclined to acquire and retain beliefs that make us feel good.

we believe certain things because they ought to be true.

The flames of our memories keep us alive!

Please, " her shadow begged. Laughingstock for sure. "I can't give you what you want, " Cam said. "You know that." She had to know that.

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head.

That's all I did - that's all I ever did - try to do what Billy Strayhorn did.

In avoiding one vice fools rush into the opposite extreme.

Passion, this absolute desire that can never be filled when it is driven by the absence of the other.

I'm Australian. I'm assimilated. I was born here - how ocker do I have to be?

I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my paintings more contrapuntal, richer.

We believe that economics does not necessarily have to be a zero-sum game; it can be a win-win proposition for everyone involved so long as they have the tools in which to succeed.