If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed.

I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.

People are happiest when they're trying to achieve goals that are difficult but not out of reach.

I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.

My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.