When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.

If you can't take the time for a vacation right now, or even a night out with friends, put something on the calendar - even if it's a month or a year down the road. Then whenever you need a boost of happiness, remind yourself about it.

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.

Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.

There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.

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.