It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people.

To be someone's best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.

We tend to credit those who create an idea, not those who perfect it, forgetting that it is often only in the perfection of an idea that true progress occurs. Putting sixty-four transistors on a chip allowed people to dream of the future. Putting four million transistors on a chip actually gave them the future.

Happiness, in one sense, is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preference.

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.

our unconscious reactions come out of a locked room, and we can't look inside that room. but with experience we become expert at using our behavior and our training to interpret - and decode - what lies behind our snap judgment and first impressions.

I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.