Failure saves lives. In the airline industry, every time a plane crashes the probability of the next crash is lowered by that.

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.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

Creating is the closest thing to being immortal.

People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.

A lot of times, people think they're the only ones that feel a certain way.

Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.

It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.

Often thoughts are given to me with the sole purpose of giving them away.

What needs to be grasped is that the system itself is the cause of all of the misery in the world. This is a simple but powerful idea.

Life is a creation, not a discovery.

These 150-minute superhero films that Hollywood is making are so concerned with their length that each scene doesn't have the time it needs to make sense.