Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.

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.

I made the first cut razor thin. A gentle kiss on virgin skin.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. I'm an Alan Simpson Republican.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

To share a hiding place, physical or psychological, is as intimate as love.

Eat breakfast. Do some push-ups. Go for long walks. Get plenty of sleep.

The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.

Watch out for dark streets in big cities because there are a lot of strange beings that hang out there at night, let alone the people. Don't you remember anything from your other lives?

I'm not a foodie; I'm an eatie. I don't have anything against foodies. I just don't have the time or the interest to do that much research.

So women are at the beginning of building a language, and not all women are conscious of it.