Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility.

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.

Examination of our past is never time-wasting. Reverberations from the past provide learning rubrics for living today.

Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.

Courageous dreaming allows you to create from the source, the quantum soup of the universe where everything exists in a latent or potential state.

By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.

When I watch myself in movies I go, 'My God.'

Concepts create idols; only wonder understands anything.

Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich.

Look after each other. As a couple. When you have kids, you'll want to put them first. Don't. Marriage is like a plant. To keep it alive you've got to water it and feed it.

I have finally learned that I must remain silent as much as possible. I must always keep my thoughts to myself.

Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.