Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.

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 who can show love are always kind. Those who cannot show love cannot be kind.

Your Thinking writes your Future &Your Action makes it.

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man. Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.

Who has that absolute trust, to fling yourself into mortality, to let it do with you as it will, with all the permutations and possibilities of as it will, be it horror or ecstasy or boredom?

I thought he worked for Heaven.' I thought I was in love.

I'm happy in English studios. I just feel like there's no pressure anywhere.

The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

The death rate is a fact; anything beyond this is an inference.