Most things that couples disagree upon aren't worth more than a day's combat.

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

People talk of the new economy and of reinventing themselves in the workplace, and in that sense most of us are less secure.

A general limitation of the human mind is its imperfect ability to reconstruct past states of knowledge, or beliefs that have changed. Once you adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.

Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.