Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general.

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.

You are a valuable instrument in the orchestration of your own world, and the overall harmony of the universe.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

Your tongue may speak lies, but your eyes know the truth.

Quit pretending to be humble when you are really just a self-abusing, emotional, drama junkie.

True love is not a question. It is an answer that you never have to spend a lifetime figuring out.

Never reject an idea because you don't have the money, manpower, muscle, or months to achieve it!

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn't want to be told what to do. I had no identification.

Whoever leads an auspicious life here and governs the commonwealth rightly, as my most noble father did, who promoted all piety and banished all ignorance, has a most certain way to heaven.

When I made 'Hard Boiled,' I had no idea that it would be released to an international audience. I just wanted to make a film to team up my two favorite actors, Tony Leung and Chow Yun-Fat.