If there was one ubiquitous recommendation about marriage it was this: "Don't go to bed angry."

In essence, the optimistic style involves taking credit for successes but little blame for failures.

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

The confidence that individuals have in their beliefs depends mostly on the quality of the story they can tell about what they see, even if they see little.

The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

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.

When you analyze happiness, it turns out that the way you spend your time is extremely important.