You should expect little or nothing from Wall Street stock pickers who hope to be more accurate than the market in predicting the future of prices. And you should not expect much from pundits making long-term forecasts.

We deeply want to be led by people who know what they're doing and who don't have to think about it too much.

It was always assumed I would be a professor. I grew up thinking it.

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.

Some memories come with a very compelling sense of truth about them. And that happens to be the case even with memories that are not true.