A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.

People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.

Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.

Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the idea of success others expect from you is only painful if that’s what you are seeking.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

Avoid losers. If you hear someone use the words 'impossible', 'never', 'too difficult' too often, drop him or her from your social network.

Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.

Those persons achieves the success who sustains their beliefs among the change of conditions.

The cheaper the crook, the gaudier the patter.

Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.

I get a lot of fashion gifts, but rarely do I get something that's just fun.

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.

There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.

My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind...

I should like to suggest that at least on the face of it a stroke by stroke story of a copulation is exactly as absurd as a chew by chew account of the consumption of a chicken's wing.

All I'm trying to do is make music that people like and that makes people happy.