In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term.

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.

Men are like dogs, " Stacy was fond of saying. And she usually went on to add that, like dogs, they all took up too much space on the bed, and they always went for the crotch.

man can not live on chocolate .... but women can

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

Fiction is fun because you get to steal an identity and try to make it authentic.

Using clichés is a substitute for thinking

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.

The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains.

My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

I've done without doing things, like sleeping and eating, but I need to write.