Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

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.

whatever beauty she thought she might have possessed she realized had only been through her husband's assessment of her

Let your children uplift your burdens and allow your role as a mother - to flourish and grow.

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.

The best we can do is lean towards the light.

Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.

I do have a 22-inch waist, I will say that.

The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.