Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

Curiosity takes ignorance seriously - and is confident enough to admit when it's in the dark. It is aware of not knowing. And then it sets out to do something about it.

What is fascinating about marriage is why anyone wants to get married.

The degree of sympathy we feel regarding another's fiasco is directly proportional to how easy or difficult it is for us to imagine ourselves, under like circumstances, making a similar mistake.

Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.

We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.

The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.