Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

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.

Don't DIE byreading BOOKSSomething's out there in the world to bea part of LIFE . . .!

I cannot think of a country in which I would be happy with the government and dominant ideology and available propaganda.

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?

You can take them in a wheelchair and put them in a pool, so they can move their arms and legs. In a pool disabled people can do things that they can't normally do otherwise.

There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

Don King was good to me through my years as champion, but I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. He's a wheeler dealer and you've got to be careful. He's a great con artist.

One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.

American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.