I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters.

Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash through the logic of individual utility and behave paradoxically. Instead of recoiling from the sorts of loving commitments that almost always involve suffering, they throw themselves more deeply into them. Even while experiencing the worst and most lacerating consequences, some people double down on vulnerability. They hurl themselves deeper and gratefully into their art, loved ones and commitments.

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm.

If you do something really cognitively demanding, like buying furniture, it turns out buying furniture is one of the most difficult things we do. Go into a furniture store and look at a sofa.

People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.

Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.