It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

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

People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.

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

Overconfidence is a powerful source of illusions, primarily determined by the quality and coherence of the story that you can construct, not by its validity.

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.