The true discovery of America is before us. The true fulfillment of our spirit, of our people, of our mighty and immortal land, is yet to come.
The truth is, I don't know what I'm doing most of the time, but I do it anyway.
The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.
The concept of loss aversion explains why we often prefer avoiding losses over acquiring gains.