The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.

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.

I am not sure that you can be taught how to love. In many ways it is innate - just watch and see what small child effortlessly does. But you can be invited to it and reminded of it.

The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.

Films are amazing. To be a part of a movie is the greatest. It's so historic and exciting.

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

Loving someone means helping them to be more themselves, which can be different from being what you’d like them to be, although often they turn out the same

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.

The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job.

As a kid I didn't root for the bad guys.

Youre always going to have some individual incidents that arent going to show off the Ryder Cup in the true form and spirit that it was made.