We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.

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

My impression is that the elimination of memories greatly reduces the value of the experience.

There is a huge wave of interest in happiness among researchers. There is a lot of happiness coaching. Everybody would like to make people happier.

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

One of the problems with expertise is that people have it in some domains and not in others.

Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them.