The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.

The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.

The test of learning psychology is whether your understanding of situations you encounter has changed, not whether you have learned a new fact.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

Many parents have discovered, perhaps with some guilt, that they can read a story to a child while thinking of something else.

Freedom has a cost, which is borne by individuals who make bad choices, and by a society that feels obligated to help them.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking of it.

The often-used phrase “pay attention” is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail.

However, attention can be moved away from an unwanted focus, primarily by focusing intently on another target.

True education does not fill our minds with facts but teach us how to think to gain wisdom.

Every time I stand to communicate, I want to take one simple truth and lodge it in the heart of the listener. I want them to know that one thing and know what to do with it.

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.

I bought my daughter a Chihuahua and I fell in love with it. So now I carry Coco around with me all the time.

Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.

Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of the wolf.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

If you're going through hell...keep going! You always grow through what you go through.

Just the way I carry my swag and I'm humble with it too.