But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

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.

You can’t control the universe, but if you learn to practice meditation and mindfulness you may be able to control yourself.

With true light comes instruments of peace. It's best when such peace begins in an American home and spread out throughout the many homes, villages and societies in the world.

What was the point of having a situation worthy of fiction if the protagonist didn't behave as he would have done in a book?

Why should we plant, when there are so many mongongo nuts in the world?

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly one-directionally without regret or reservation.

It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For true poetry is never speech but always a song.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.