Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

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.

Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?

The secret to lifelong friendship is to treat is not just as a gift, but also as a responsibility. Thanks for playing your part to perfection....

You promised me one night. I want you next to me tonight. We have the rest of our lives to be apart.

Live for God. Live for your mother. Die for your gang. In that order.

What, and end up like you? Wistfully recalling a lover from long ago? Please.

This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.

I'm the producer of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," so I definitely have an exciting day job.

It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.

you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard

Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.