I remind myself of Einstein's remark that common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.

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.

Flow is the best of what happens when potential is activated by consciousness.

What chilling blows we suffer-thanks to our conflicting wills-whenever we show these mortal men some kindness.

I wake up in the morning and I think about one brand. I don't have enough time to wake up twice and think about two.

Heaven can wait, but I cannot. I cannot take for granted that time is on my side.

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue Sent to the factory, just like me and like you So how come they stayed your execution? The audience roars its standing ovation "Dust.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives.

If your environment is not to your liking, change it!

I think at some point you have to empower others and really allow everyone else to do what they're hired to do and what they're brought onto the team to do.