Modernity needs to understand that being rich and becoming rich are not mathematically, personally, socially, and ethically the same thing.

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.

My love is like the light and warmth of the sun. It never changes. It never disappears even when you change your positions and perceptions.

I independently produce scientific advancements to share with everyone, and that is over seven billion people!

Civilization was a defense against nature’s raw power.

The truth of the world is like Air, which is there but unexplainable.

What if, tomorrow is your last day on earth? Think!

In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries.

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun.

They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.