If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.

People are drastically overconfident about their judgments of others.

We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.

The brain and the eye may have a contractual relationship in which the brain has agreed to believe what the eye sees, but in return the eye has agreed to look for what the brain wants.

People are happiest when they're trying to achieve goals that are difficult but not out of reach.

People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to that end.

The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will. The bad news is that winning the lottery will not make you as happy as you expect.

Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.

The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.

We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy

Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not exclusively.

If there is a gain and loss in business, feedback control is my business.

Luckily I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

I gave him a smile. I was aiming for sweet, but he turned a shade paler and scooted a bit farther from me. Note to self: work more on sweet and less on psycho-killer.

You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black

I'm also human so I have days when I look in the mirror and go, "All right . . . Things are definitely changing." I can see that.

Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal.

That works fine for me . . . Sienna Lauren Snow.

He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.

A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.