It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them.

There are some conditions where you have to trust your intuition.

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions