To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

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 cannot wait to stare into the face of my children and be in love.

The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.

I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.

I love romance. It goes back to the films I watched as a kid.

If you don't deal with your emotions, one day your emotions will deal with you.

Fall if you will, but rise you must.

I want a man as nice as my retarded dog, but one that doesn't crap on the floor.

Don't wait until you are perfect to change the world.

I do a job. I get paid. I go home.

Elizabeth Taylor has a big heart. She recently built a halfway house for girls who don't want to go all the way.