Is happiness really the only thing we should be aiming for?

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.

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

An attack on public education is an attack on democracy.

I never felt cool growing up. I was a bit of an outsider, but I discovered theatre very early on, which got me through.

Painting is a strange business.

I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.

Subliminal is about how we misinterpret our behavior because were unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place.

Be strong minded, and always believe that the impossible is possible.