Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.

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

This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.

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

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.