Behind our unremarkable front door waits the little world of our making - our home.

The biggest waste of time is to do well something that we need not do at all.

People in religions that teach that believers in other faiths are condemned, for example, tend to have lower life satisfaction. People who believe in heaven and hell tend to be less happy than those believe only in heaven.

It's so easy to wish that we'd made an effort in the past, so that we'd happily be enjoying the benefit now, but when now is the time when that effort must be made, as it always is, that prospect is much less inviting.

I always say you can self-medicate through closet cleaning. Everyone knows that feeling of a clear surface, and how it makes you feel you can really focus and start your work.

Writing makes me happy.

Reading makes me want to write my own books, and just trying to understand what I see in the world around me makes me want to figure things out.