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

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.

When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.

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.

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

... sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn't stay silent if it doesn't have the answer. The mind produces something, and what it produces very characteristically is the answer to an easier but related question.

A large portion of the weekend effects is explained by differences in the amount of time spent with friends or family between weekends and weekdays.