Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that, we get an absolutely flat line. ... Money does not buy you experiential happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.

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

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.

I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.

Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.

One study found that people who just thought about watching their favorite movie actually raised their endorphin levels by 27 percent.