Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

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.

It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.

Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true.

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

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.