When parents have college savings accounts for their kids, their kids show higher social and cognitive performance.

One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

The idea that you will make the right decision every time is very unlikely.

Your immediate environment is comprised of coffee shops, supermarkets, websites, apps and all kinds of things - none of which have an interest in your long-term or short-term financial well-being.

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

Companies, however unintentionally, choke the motivation out of their employees.

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don’t see how our conflicts of interest work on us.

Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

Brands communicate in two directions: they help us tell other people something about ourselves, but they also help us form ideas about who we are.

Think of what you desire out of life.

Life, at its best, is happening right in front of you. You might miss it if you're too busy bee. Live your life with a little bit of spice!

The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?

I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands of years old and have long traditions.

The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.

The stars are not so strange as the mind that studies them, analyzes their light, and measures their distance.

The sweetness of life lies in usefulness, like honey deep in the heart of a clover bloom.

A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow to Buddha.

[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time.

There can be no happiness without good health