Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

An executive might have a very strong intuition that a given product has promise, without considering the probability that a rival is already ahead in developing the same product.

So your emotional state really has a lot to do with what you're thinking about and what you're paying attention to.

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

Our memory tells us stories, that is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

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

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.