It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have got richer, their people have become no happier.
People who achieve a sense of meaning in their lives are happier than those who live from one pleasure to another.
No society can work unless its members feel responsibilities as well as rights.
Competition for status is a zero sum game
Kindness is like mercy: it blesses him that gives and him that takes.
Derek Bok asks the right question, 'What policies would produce the greatest happiness?' and he gives great and often startling answers, combining his deep knowledge of politics with the new findings of happiness research.
I did not always know I would be a writer. Until I had a room of my own, I did not write much at all - no more than any other child who read a lot of books. I began to write fiction and poetry when I first had a room that was truly my own with a door that shut and some measure, however fragile, of privacy.
The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.