"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion"

Timely.

“In the long run men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.” - Henry David Thoreau

"I cannot imagine the starvation of surviving without books." - Wilma Dykeman, the great unknown Southern writer

This book has really changed the way I think about my day-to-day emotional reactions, perceptions, and assumptions. In short, we think we're rational, but not one of us truly is. Luckily, being aware of out basic mental processes and their weaknesses in the modern world actually reduces the impact of these evolutionary "glitches".