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

To know whether you can trust a particular intuitive judgment, there are two questions you should ask: Is the environment in which the judgment is made sufficiently regular to enable predictions from the available evidence? The answer is yes for diagnosticians, no for stock pickers. Do the professionals have an adequate opportunity to learn the cues and the regularities? The answer here depends on the professionals' experience and on the quality and speed with which they discover their mistakes.

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.

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

Each additional day together is a gift. The end of the day means the end of hostilities, the recognition that the underlying shared values and commitment to the relationship trump the need for one last dig or self-righteous justification.

True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.