The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of our awareness.

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 Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

So... today the magic happens from 16 in 17 years old.

It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.

Creativity comes by breaking the rules, by saying that you're in love with the anarchist.

The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

I couldn't imagine, you know, God having a plan for my life. I thought I planned my life out.

You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

Love is the most durable power in the world.

I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.

Be open to other people's opinions, ideas, and try new things. One of the best ways to learn is to feed off other people's experiences.