Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

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.

If the foundation of your house is righteousness then your wealth will not be like a cardboard house that collapses under a gentle blow of wind

She was never neutral, but she could be tolerant, although it was hard work - never a tolerance of indifference.

Reason is the life of the law nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason. The law which is perfection of reason.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode?

You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man.

Here lies Mickey Mantle. Banned from baseball.

It's kind of good to get that evil monkey off my back!

I'm happy to say I am a Harrison-Kreps-Keynesian.