When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.

It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.

If you're going to be unreligious, it's likely going to be due to reflecting on it and finding some things that are hard to believe.

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.

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.

... sometimes when you are asked a question that is difficult, the mind doesn't stay silent if it doesn't have the answer. The mind produces something, and what it produces very characteristically is the answer to an easier but related question.