Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased.

To better avoid errors, you should talk to people who disagree with you and you should talk to people who are not in the same emotional situation you are.

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

We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories of experiences. Even when we think about the future, we don’t think of our future normally as experiences. We think of our future as anticipated memories.

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.