It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

You know, the standard state for people is 'mildly pleasant.' Negative emotions are quite rare, and extremely positive emotions are rare. But people are mildly pleased most of the time, they're mildly tired a lot of the time, and they wish they were somewhere else a substantial part of the time - but mostly they're mildly pleased.

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.

Happiness is determined by factors like your health, your family relationships and friendships, and above all by feeling that you are in control of how you spend your time.

It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.

By their very nature, heuristic shortcuts will produce biases, and that is true for both humans and artificial intelligence, but the heuristics of AI are not necessarily the human ones.

People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.

If people do not know what is going to make them better off or give them pleasure, then the idea that you can trust people to do what will give them pleasure becomes questionable.

Courage is willingness to take the risk once you know the odds. Optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. It's a big difference.

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

The thing is, I don't do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.

I don't think the world focuses on the positive things enough.

Fatherhood is the best thing that could happen to me, and I'm just glad I can share my voice.

It's about taking advantage of the opportunities you have right now, and right now we're in a position where you call somebody and they're willing to pick up and take the call because they're a fan, you have to take advantage of that and have a chance to capitalize on your ideas.

I've been successful in different areas, but nothing brings a smile to my face more than my oldest son, Zaire, and my second son, Zion, saying the kind word of 'Dad.'

Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

United we stand, divided we fall.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Example is the best precept.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Please all, and you will please none.

Appearances are often deceiving.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Plodding wins the race.

It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.

Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.

An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.

I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.

No one is an environmentalist by birth. It is only your path, your life, your travels that awaken you.

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.

Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.