"A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact."

"Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it"

"Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance."

"The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches."

"Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery."

"Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed."

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

"A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth."

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