When you're in pain, tomorrow doesn't exist - just the pain - and the only thing that you want in the world is for it to go away.

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.

It is nearly impossible.''Nearly impossible and impossible are not the same thing.

When man was created it was not for this purposeTo become taken over and be utterly worthless

We will see beauty in the outer world when we are able to see beauty within ourselves. And this is the best thing we can do for ourselves and for the universe.

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

President Obama signed a bill preventing members of Congress from profiting from insider trading. Didn't you think that was already illegal?

Most of the people I know in comedy are not weird or messed up.

Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it's because we're too wrapped up in our own problems.

I don't want to pitch forever.