There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.

We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.

Money cannot buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

Only bad things happen quickly, . . . Virtually all the happiness-produ cing processes in our lives take time, usually a long time: learning new things, changing old behaviors, building satisfying relationships, raising children. This is why patience and determination are among life's primary virtues.

Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.