People are really happier with friends than they are with their families or their spouse or their child.

Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it.

The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory

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.

I'm not a great believer in self-help.