Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.

you know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see the obvious.

I don't try to be clever at all. The idea that I could see what no one else can is an illusion.

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.

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

The amount of success it takes for leaders to become overconfident isn't terribly large.

We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.